You describe your music as rooted in your spiritual practice, classical Indian training, and reverence for neo-soul. What do each of these mean to you?

My spiritual practice is really about focusing on alignment of yourself with your environment and the space around you. I don’t wanna say practicing gratitude because that has such cheap connotations these days but on a deep level, really maintaining gratitude for who you are and where you are, celebrating time and place. I started classical Indian singing when I was 4, and its culture really informed how I view music. I really see singing as a meditative practice, a ritual, as really honing on your craft, which is why I really value working on your art every day. I also realized that the melodic richness of Indian classical singing inherently inspires how I write as well. Neo-soul just has such a rich history, and to want to join such a storied genre requires a lot of reverence for all of the artists that came before you, so really studying black music, and just paying your respects to that history I think is very important.

demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.