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 just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

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.

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 didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

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