I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.