I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told.