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

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 interesting any way in art.

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.

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.

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

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