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

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

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

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.

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.

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.