You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.

Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.

Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.