I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop