At the end of last year, Troye Sivan released his his first full-length album, Blue Neighbourhood. The mellow pop debut was met with strong reviews and ever since, Sivan has quickly made a seamless transition from prolific YouTube personality [1] to burgeoning pop star. He's even crushing it on national television, having peformed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon [2] just last month. As part of a partnership with the SweeTARTS "Follow Your Tart" campaign [3], we sat down with Sivan to talk about his emergence as a newly minted pop singer, the inner workings of his album, and what's next.

• On weaving his personal life into his music: "When it comes to like being creative, there's no real boundaries. Like, if it's music, I'll say anything and everything. But then as far as like — you know, I would love to be more public about that stuff. I think in general I like sharing, but at the same time it's like . . . I want to be able to reserve that right to say like, 'That's something I don't talk about.'"
• On listening to his album all at once: "For me, the idea of picking a single always was weird and always was something that like intimidated me . . . I don't really like the idea of doing that, so I'm glad that you're listening to the whole thing. That's the way that I want people to listen to the album, is by listening to the whole thing, you know? Not necessarily in order."
• On his song-writing process: "I wrote all of the songs, I'd say, within a year-and-a-half period of each other, but I personally know no one can hear the differences between the later ones vs. the earlier ones."
• On the underlying story in his album: "I wouldn't say that there's a cohesive narrative other than one of me just like growing up, you know?" . . . [and] I think maybe, if you were to listen, if I were to write my second album now you'd be like, 'Oh, so that's what happened after the first album.' And that would make sense."
• On whether he knows what his next album will be about: "I do, yeah. I think I want to take a little bit of time to just, you know, think it through, and to wake up in the same place every day for a little while. I have a lot of ideas. I'm like really excited to get working on it."