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

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.

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.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues