The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.