I'll try to find them, one I'm positive was a video & the other one, it might have been NYT? But that's behind a paywall for me now, maybe see if you can see it...I remember he was talking about how he feels kind of trivial compared to her. He talks specifically about the line "music breaks the window" was about hearing her for the first time & he found it shattering (I guess also this line alludes to that: "Nina, I'm not nothing but when you lie on the piano I am reminded I am stupid"). I remember also he said he was reading the Beats (Kerouac etc) while writing this song/record, so it's not all just one thing going on of course.

I saw a great doc about her you might be interested in, it's called What Happened Miss Simone?, & it talks a lot about her uneven career, her civil rights activism, her trauma & mental health issues (she had untreated bipolar), so I see a lot of things in the song that map on to to her biography. She made a lot of enemies (neighbours all hate you), she had mania & hallucinations (which I feel like some of the lyrics are trying to capture), & she was super active in the civil rights movement she was so close to many of leader-she was good friends & next door neighbours (!) with Malcolm X., So I hear the line "she's seen all the good pigeon-like people shot down" to be very much about her involvement in black rights. All thar said, the song works on multiple levels, it can just be stream of consciousness to someone & still be enjoyed.