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 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.

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

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

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 play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular 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.