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.

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

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 I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.

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

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.

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.