It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.
Boots RileyA lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.
Boots RileyI am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.
Boots RileyBecoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.
Boots Riley