Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

God, our world is so complicated.

You are my sweetest downfall.

I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

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.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.