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

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

I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

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