I think I'm prone to panic.
I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.
I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.