Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's so many other parts of life... being lost, feeling your way around, what you gonna do next.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.