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The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

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

I was reared on folk music.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.