To me, this is about sticking to my guns and keeping my word to the artists involved.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.