[Writing] has helped me meet people.

Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.