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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

Folk is bare bones music.

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

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

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.