I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.
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.
Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.
Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.
I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.
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.
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.
Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.
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.
I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.
I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.
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.
I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.
I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in m
