The music told me what was happening to these people and I simply wrote it down. The next morning, I realized my pen hadn't written very well on my skin, but had only scratched it. Whatever works, I guess. Want was written prior, and adapted for the track he gave me. Breath Control and Chrome were written to those tracks specifically.
Some artists carry a persona around when it is time to perform.
I don't think I have a persona per se, but I find I get weirdly funny between poems if I'm in a strange mood, as if I need to lighten things up between pieces. It depends on how focused I am. If the room goes dark in a kind of tunnel vision, I know i'm in the absolutely right place emotionally because that's when I go on automatic pilot and the voices speak through me most clearly. That's just what I've been approached to do so far. I don't really seek out collaborators, they tend to find me.