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

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

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.

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.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.