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

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

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

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.

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

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.