As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.