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

The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

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.

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.

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.