I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.