I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

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.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.