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.

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

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.

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

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

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 feel a lot more at peace with it.