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

Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.

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.

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

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

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.