It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Art is only a way of expressing pain.
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.