Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

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

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

I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.

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.

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!"

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