"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

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"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

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"It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs."

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"I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk."

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"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

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"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."

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"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."

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"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

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"I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up."

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"My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters."

Sister

"I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs."

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"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."

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"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."

Fashion

"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."

Being

"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."

Pretty

"No, because I've never really changed my style that much."

Style

"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."

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"You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it."

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"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."

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