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" Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie. "
Scottish
Actually
Woody Guthrie
" After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running. "
Running
Right
Leg
" All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school. "
Jazz
School
Stars
" A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode. "
Culture
Time
Path
" Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry. "
Folk
Who
World
" A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water! "
Writer
Duck
Like
" A young person coming up and saying, 'I absolutely love your music,' is very encouraging. "
Saying
Music
Love
" Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that. "
Fame
Life
Personal
" Blues and jazz are such a root to music. "
Music
Root
Blues
" Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance. "
Place
Artist
Ignorance
" Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary. "
Path
Loneliness
Doing
" Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s. "
Art
Music
Style
" Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs. "
Music
Singing
Trouble
" Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work. "
Interesting
Mean
Work
" I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America. "
America
Beat
Campus
" I already had top 10 records before 'Sunshine Superman,' with 'Catch the Wind' and 'Colors,' but this was a real breakthrough for me. It was a consciousness change for songwriting, as people are now saying I initiated the psychedelic revolution with this album, 'Sunshine Superman.' "
Sunshine
Revolution
Me
" I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it. "
I Am
Up
Start
" I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s. "
Life
Times
Many
" I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down. "
Help
Down
Something
" I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves. "
I Can
Ideas
Save
" I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry. "
Me
Know
Poetry
" I didn't realise that I was so accomplished on the guitar until someone said to me, 'How do you do that?' That someone was John Lennon. He asked me to teach him my technique. "
Me
Said
Someone
" I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead. "
You
Feel
Explore
" I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love. "
Green
Soul
Love
" I found in Rick Rubin a kindred soul. When I visited his home and looked in his library, I saw he was reading the very same New Age books I had picked up the month before. "
Month
Age
Soul
" If you have a loved one, you can survive anything. "
Loved One
Loved
Survive
" I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.' "
Need
Stronger
Place
" I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me. "
Finger
Hard
Me
" I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion. "
Children
Love
Song
" I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too. "
Fame
Say
My Own
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