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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.