I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!
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.