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.

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

It could be worse. I could be you.

Thinking about going to the balcony and jumping off.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.