I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.