You've described your practice as continual search for, rather than, um, arriving at fixed answers, if I'm correct, yeah? And can you take us into a piece where a question you started with led you to something completely different?

That is a good question.

I would say that less than it leading me to something completely different, it's a steady process for, um- Where I started and then, um, what I ended up with.

Um, and I tend to work in series, so I'll start with one idea, which was, for example, uh, my first EP, which was called That Was Then, This Is Now.

And then I started thinking about more of the themes that were in that piece, which were looking back at the past and, um, seeing where I was at in the current place.

And then I started thinking, "Where do all of these kind of vicissitudes of life come from?" And they came from intimacy and the ending of life, the two big, um, intensities that we have to deal with.

So the next album that I wrote was called Songs of S+D.

But those questions, with those questions came the lived experience and opportunity as well, so with this question I'd like to know, this segment shall I say, you also spoke very specifically from your own experience about race, gender, age in the music industry, yeah? And I wanna know what have you seen change and what still needs change so Black and brown artists can keep making their work and receiving opportunities? What do you think we need more, to do more of, or, uh, have we come a long way?