I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

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I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

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An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

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Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

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Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

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Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.

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I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

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That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

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God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

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