The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

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

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.

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

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

No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.