Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

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 looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

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

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.