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 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.

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

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

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.