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

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

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.

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's just food. It's the thing that people do because they have to, because they need it. I feel music is one of those things, too.

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

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.