I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.