When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.