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.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

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

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

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