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'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

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

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 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 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.