I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night..

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious ….

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing..

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I….

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music..

No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch o….

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that..

I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and dri….

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the sam….

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs..

Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way..

I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy..

There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It can be, but it'….

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people..

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this ….

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats..

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art..

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess..

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people..

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments..

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music..