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.

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

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

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

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

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

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.