I'm not ashamed to say that I don't like all kinds of music, but I honestly don't know anyone else that is so in love with music as me. The way it communicates with people on a universal level absolutely astounds me, because I understand the way it's really changed my life over the last few years.

I am a musician, it's what I love to do more than anything else, and I will love the day that I can help people understand life through music more often than I can now.

It's not simply that I hate a genre because of the way that it sounds. It's that, in addition to sounds that I don't like, the lyrics also contribute nothing toward a greater understanding of human nature. If more metal songs, for example, actually contained a legitimate analysis of the human condition, and did it in such a way that actually care about communicating those points, I'd probably listen to it more often.

For those reasons, I listen to and perform folk music, because by definition it is the most natural kind of music, because it is the music that immediately stems from culture.