I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down…

- Matana Roberts

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

- Matana Roberts

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison s…

- Matana Roberts

The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet, but t…

- Matana Roberts

It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in…

- Matana Roberts

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trau…

- Matana Roberts

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

- Matana Roberts

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've d…

- Matana Roberts

I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to find a happy medium that…

- Matana Roberts