LOVED the performance and her look.
I guess this was the interview bit:
On traveling the world:
Working closely with the photographer Seamus Murphy, who'd done a lot of traveling all his life as a photojournalist, I began to travel with him, and the first country we went to was Kosovo, and we also went to Afghanistan, and then we thought for a long time about what would be another country to visit before we felt we finished the project of an album and also a book—it became a book called The Hollow of the Hand—but we decided that like Washington DC felt like the right place to go to to tie up the ends.
Asked why:
A lot of the decisions were made there that affected Afghanistan and affected Kosovo, so it was a nice place to go back, and I as a writer was just trying to almost look at the similarities that I could find rather than differences, and we ended up spending a lot of time in a neighborhood called Anacostia which is south of the river—a very poor part, very run-down neighborhood—and I talked to a lot of the people there. We spent about a week on the streets talking to people and listening to what they had to say, and I collected notes like a journalist might.
Asked whether journalism and songwriting go together for her:
I still call myself a songwriter, really. I mean I gather information for songs, and my biggest drive in my life is to want to sing to people, that's the way I get across the things that interest me and the things that concern me.
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