That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.

To love means you also trust.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

The search is in the doing.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.