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

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.

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

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.

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

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