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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I think I have a dualistic nature.
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 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.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.