I try to shy away from straight Q&As when interviewing artists. Do enough of them, and you get the sense that you aren’t even trying. Unfortunately, some artists interviews just don’t translate well to paragraph form. Take the rather convenient example of Brooklyn-based musician Tim Fite. Compared with the biography one attempts to piece together from the seeds he offers, his fusion of hip-hop, folk, country and classic rock—stitched together from samples of long discarded songs—seems downright logical. Behold ...

Yeah. There were a lot of babies born without any blood, and no one really talks about it because it’s a subject no one really wants to know that much about. I was lucky because my parents were pro-active and they met this guy name Laurence Q. Moyer who created a blood machine for me so I can put blood into my body.

Nuh-uh. I grew up in the woods. It was deep in the woods. You can’t see your neighbors, and you can’t see your hands in the dark.

When I record, it’s just me, and I steal a lot of music from people so I guess you could call them unwilling members of the band. When I play out, my brother plays with me. And The Gentleman with Itchy Legs contributes a certain amount of pictorial evidence, and he comes in the form of light and shadow on the screen behind us.

He does.

Are you going to say people should come to the show, or that they shouldn’t?

Good. I just wanted to make sure that it didn’t say, “Don’t go to the show,” because then I would say, “Forget everything I told ya.”

Jan. 6. Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.), Park Slope, B’klyn, 718-638-4400; 8, $10.