I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I see music as fluid architecture.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.