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

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 a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.

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

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.