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

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.

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

Rain, hold me in your glassy arms—cover me in wet kisses

Treat your friends as you do your pictures and place them in their best light.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.

If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.

The New York Times carries as much weight as the FBI, and if the New York Times says there's nothing to see between Trump and Russia and Putin, then there's nothing to see.