Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.