I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

I've never really thought of myself as a singer.