Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

I love putting the music together. It's like art

The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.

I go through phases of stuff.

When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.