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.

My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.

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.

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.