There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

sensible economic policies that put American families first.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.