As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it..

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life..

As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that ar….

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all..

I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that….

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to ….

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage..

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it..

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method..

My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what….

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions..

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interestin….

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds..

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really….

The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so ….

Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that help….

Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corpo….

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing..

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum..