Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places..

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them bec….

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great..

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get….

There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that….

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of pow….

I am a complete jazz nerd..

If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to do with what I do. From a ….

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever..

I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the ….

The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much cl….

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for….