In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.
“I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.”
“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”