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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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