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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

Folk is bare bones music.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.