How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.