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

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

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

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

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?