If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.

I like down-to-earth people.

Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.