I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

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.

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.