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 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.

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.

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.

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.