I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

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

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 like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

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.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.