As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the artist and to dwell upon biographical information can only make it singular, and I am really, really disgusted by that.

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

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.