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.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

I just love fiction. I love it.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I think to me, all songs are stories.