Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is..

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

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

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 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 ….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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

I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around.….

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

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

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

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

Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest..

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….

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

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess..

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