I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something that fits into their lives or their psyche in any way. So I tried to present it in a different way to give it more of a chance to sink into people's heads.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.