It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I would think, "Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one."

It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.

I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating