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.

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

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

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

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.

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