As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent.

Most musicians I know cannot open up.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupies is pathological.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that I am playing emotions and expressing them in a coherent public language called music.

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey.