This is a transitory world, we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it, and holding on. Even if it's a moment it's true love, true love doesn't mean that it goes on for eternity. Eternity is a terrible concept.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to 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.

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

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