The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace..

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of g….

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no..

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie..

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively..

When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes ….

When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hea….

You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stac….

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure..

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done..

Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who ca….

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks..

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd..

I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead..

Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn..

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they ….

I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about….

I'm gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while..

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some….

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee..