As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But it's not that easy to just replicate. Some people think, "Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before." But it just doesn't work like that. It's a lot more mysterious or slippery.