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

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.

No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.

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.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.