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I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.