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

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

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

It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.

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

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

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 not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.