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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.