It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.