I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hear them. It's not just the words, it's what is being felt.