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

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

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

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 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.

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