This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.