Songfacts®:

• This life-on-the-road number finds Alessia Cara singing about the isolated life of a touring musician.
  
  Just me, myself, and nothing
  But I taught me how to love it
  Home is wherever I live
  
  For Alessia Cara, home is now whatever hotel room she happens to be staying in.
• When Cara was growing up, she dreamt of being a working musician but naively thought she would go back home every night after performing. She explained in a video interview that it was only once she started being successful that she realized how the job takes over her life.
  
  "I think just like the travel, being away from home - I didn't realize it was going to be that constant and I didn't think it was going to have that much of a toll on me, especially at the beginning," she said. "You get used to it, but I don't know, I think it's kind of jarring when you first get into it because you don't realize how much it changes every aspect of your life. It's a commitment, it's not just like something you can clock in and out of, you gotta commit to it."
• "Wherever I Live" can be seen as a follow-up to Alessia Cara's 2015 track "Four Pink Walls." On that song she sung about her childhood bedroom, where she spent much of her teenage life.