People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

It's not easy to define poetry.