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.

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

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

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.

Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.