I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.