I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.