Rishi Keshe Hirway

I can't allow for that in my own music.

Otherwise, it will be clear to everyone else that I am an imposter and I don't actually belong in this world.

I should go back to just telling other people's stories about music and not making my own music if I'm the slightest bit out of tune.

And so it's still hard for me to listen to some of this because I do hear all the moments where my voice isn't perfect.

And I also think that it's kind of appropriate because in the end, so much of the album and this song in particular is about accepting how things never work out the way that you plan them to.

That this idea of like control that I might want to have has always been an illusion.

And so to make music in this way where I've had to let go of control felt like in some ways I was honoring what the music was about anyway.

Yeah, we'll see.

TBD.

I think that I've been trying to understand who I am and where I come from, why I am this way.

And I've been looking a lot at who my parents have been, who they've been in my life, and how that might've figured into things, what I might've gotten from them.

I think with my dad, especially, it feels like a puzzle that I still haven't figured out.

And I wanted to make an album that said like, look, this is who I am for better or for worse.

This is the truth.

And some of the stories are really just questions.

And a question for me is like, where does my dad figure into this?

Given that we feel so different.

that I feel like he can't relate to who I am.

I can't relate to the stories he tells or the way he sees the world.

How is it that I came from him?