I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.