I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

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.

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.

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.

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.