Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.