Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.

I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.

I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.