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.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

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.