I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.