I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.

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

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

Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.

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.

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.

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