Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

You can't always trust your mother.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.