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.

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.

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.

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.

His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.

I bet you don't hear no a lot.""It's a dirty word. I'm not a fan of it.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.