We Were Raised With That Discussion About

The White Music Was Melodic And Pretty, And You Had Beautiful Women's Voices Like Gogi Grant And Even The Andrews Sisters. Then I Went Directly To Rhythm And Blues, Which Had Beautiful Voices But Not Much Melody In Particular And Pretty Much The Same Chord Pattern. I Loved It, I Was Entrenched In It, But Then Folk Music Came In The Middle Of That For Me, And Made Its Own Path. And It Was Part Of The Rebellion Against Bubblegum Music, Or Music That Is Pretty But Doesn't Say Anything.

That Was Sheer Luck That It [being Immersed Into Folk Scene] Happened When My Voice Began To Develop. I Don't Know Exactly What Would Have Happened If I Hadn't Been Alive And Well And Really Lively In The Cambridge Scene. But (the Folk Scene) Was, And I Fell Into It Absolutely Naturally In The Little Coffee Shops, And Pretty Soon It Was Newport And Then It Was An Overwhelming Response Internationally, Actually.

I Don't Think Of Myself As A Symbol Of The Sixties, But I Do Think Of Myself As A Symbol Of Following Through On Your Beliefs.

It Sounds Corny, But It's Absolutely True: A Song Chooses Me. I Don't Go Looking For A Certain Kind Of Lyric. It Kind Of Develops Its Own Little Arc And I'll Just See What Happens.

All Of Us Are Survivors, But How Many Of Us Transcend Survival?