I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.
I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.