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

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.

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.

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

I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

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