I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

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 think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It can be, but it's just food. It's the thing that people do because they have to, because they need it. I feel music is one of those things, too.

I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.