For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.