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.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

The devil wanders into my soul.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.