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 was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

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

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

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

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.