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.

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.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

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 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.