My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want! — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them.… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
