When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.

"The brownstone stood against Lake Michigan but the waves rolled over Lake shore Drive and made it seem like pieces of a monopoly game." ~Rene Remington

It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.

Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.