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

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

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

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 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.

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.