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

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.

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

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.

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.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is.

I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere.

If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.