You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

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.

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.

I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

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.