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 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'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.

Sometimes we do not have words to explain our emotions, just a smile is enough.

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Giving is the only thing that creates wealth.

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

The one who is not being born is dying.

Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.