I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.