I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

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

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

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

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

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.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.