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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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