Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape it. But I found that I liked it.

What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.

Just hold on just a minute. I'm just stepping in, you know.

With our music, and music that we popularize, we try to reach out and remind people that, when taken out of the hands of a parasite, music is still a great lead into a democratic atmosphere of chaos, where moments of great freedom and where great friends could be found. And that in the world of rapidly dissolving authentic cultures, soul-searching through the music is something that connects you with the most authentic thing there - your savage heart.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.