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

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

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.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

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.