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'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 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 drinking too much.

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 with sheet music.

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

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 never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

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