I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

I miss working. It's real, you know? But I don't know anything but songwriting, and I don't even know that. I didn't go to school; the only thing I know how to do is this. The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.

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.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

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

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.