Folk Music Quotes

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

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.