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.

The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

Different cultures have different audiences.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.