It takes so many forms and it manages to manifest itself so prevalently that there's just plenty of it to go around. Several of your songs comment on your experience as a black man in a basically white genre. Do you know how many people it pisses off when I remind them of that. It's calming to me. They get mad at me because I reminded them of the fact that there's something different.
People really end up killing the messenger, which is unfortunate.
Tragic figures seem to figure prominently in your work. We see her as a loss, but I think I paint that song as her having found a certain amount of truth. She is like an angel flying up. Or flying down. He flicked off all of the electrical switches.