Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

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.

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

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

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.

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.