I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

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.

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

I don't usually read reviews.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

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