I Never Went Through A Period Where

We Have A Serious Problem With Incarceration In This Country. It's Destroying Families, It's Destroying Communities And We're The Most Incarcerated Country In The World, And When You Look Deeper And Look At The Reasons We Got To This Place, We As A Society Made Some Choices Politically And Legislatively, Culturally To Deal With Poverty, Deal With Mental Illness In A Certain Way And That Way Usually Involves Using Incarceration.

I Know When Things Feel A Little, Like, Intrusive And When They Don't. I Don't Have A Lot To Hide. But I Do Sometimes Think, Don't Share Everything.

Mass Incarceration Is A Policy That's Kind Of Built Up Over The Last Four Decades And It's Destroyed Families And Communities, And Something We Need To Change. And It's Fallen Disproportionally On Black And Brown Communities, Especially Black Communities, And It's Kind Of A Manifestation Of Structural Racism.

I Just Want It To Be Timeless And Timely At The Same Time.

I Think It's Hard To Really Write A Song That Will Educate Someone Because Songs Are Meant To Be ... You Don't Want To Be Too Didactic In A Song Because It Doesn't Make For Good Music. And I Think The Role Of Songs Can Be To Inspire People But There Needs To Education And Prose To Back That Up.