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 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.

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.

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.

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

Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.

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.