Noah Kahan recently opened up about his mental health struggles in a new episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty. In his Netflix documentary, Out of Body, he shares personal insights into his life, including his battles with body dysmorphia and OCD. Noah admits that he hesitated to seek help because he feared it would impact his songwriting.
He explained, “These problems were really hard for me and disrupted my ability to wake up and just be a human being. I was afraid that getting help would dull my creativity.” He worried that if he became happy, he wouldn’t care about making music, and that his feelings wouldn’t resonate with his audience.
Eventually, Noah realized he didn’t want to live that way anymore. After getting help, he found that his sadness became “more manageable,” and he stopped getting lost in cycles of obsession and anxiety. “It really was a turning point for me making this record,” he said. His new album, The Great Divide, is set to release on April 24.
In a lighter moment during the podcast, Noah shared that the strangest place he ever wrote a song was in the bathroom at JFK airport. He also jokingly named Niall Horan as the musician he’d choose to help him bury a body. Lastly, he expressed his strong opinion that macaroni and cheese isn’t very good and mentioned that his favorite compliment is, “I love your shoes.”
