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.

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

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.

Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.

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

I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.