Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.