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

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 friend-intimate with as text.

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

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.

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.

Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.