When Right Now, It’s Like This came out, I went downstairs and did the dishes. I’d let it go—this piece of me—and handed it to you. And I celebrated that quiet victory alone, scrubbing dried pasta sauce off a ceramic bowl. It felt right. After all the noise of getting the album out into the world, the silence and simplicity of doing the dishes felt like a relief. I wasn’t staring at the mountain of a music career ahead of me—I was just scrubbing a bowl, grounded by the immediacy of it.

Albums are released weekly. Singles daily. Books, films, columns, and sculptures are unveiled continuously. Each project comes with a different name attached to it, and behind each name is a crowded table of brilliant minds—producers, co-writers, collaborators—who silently stand in the shadows, holding up the public persona with grace and humility.

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