Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

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

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

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.