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

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

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.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

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.

I'm always trying to swim to new ground.