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

I hate show business.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

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

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.