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

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

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

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