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.

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

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

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

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

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.