John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

- Harvey Gantt

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

- Lara Spencer

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

- Leslie Fiedler

I'm a folk artist at heart.

- Jenny Scheinman

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

- Jenny Scheinman

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

- John Fahey

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

- John Fahey

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

- Joanna Newsom

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

- John C. Reilly

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

- Jenny Eclair

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

- Amy Lee

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

- Cynthia Payne

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

- Cass McCombs

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

- Bruce Springsteen

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

- Bob Dylan

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

- Amy Ray

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

- Amos Lee

Growing up, we had folk records.

- Alison Krauss

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

- Alison Goldfrapp

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

- Ani DiFranco