I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

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.

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It can be, but it's just food. It's the thing that people do because they have to, because they need it. I feel music is one of those things, too.

I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

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.