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.

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.

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 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 feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

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

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.