I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.