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.

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.

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

No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.

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

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.