My name is Annie Clark. I song-write using a lot of technology

and I have a band called St. Vincent.

In the 60s there was the singer-songwriter, just the troubadour.

It's kind of morphed into this multidimensional technological way of doing things.

My uncle Tuck Andress and my aunt Patti, the jazz duo Tuck & Patti, they really raised me musically.

I remember them saying to me, "Be good to the music, and the music will be good to you"—that stuck with me.

I made a record with David Byrne called Love This Giant.

We sent files over the Internet, back and forth, for about four years. Each of us adding little ideas;

playing this sort of musical tennis with brass arrangements.

I would describe ingenuity as not just looking at the past, but thinking about the future of music, humanity,

and the future of technology; and how all of those things all meet up.

I lose sense of my body when things are at a really high point musically.

There's no self-consciousness, and that's the best feeling.

There's nothing in the world I'm capable of doing besides making music. [laughs]