The Snail said "Understanding why anyone chooses to be a professional folksinger in the first place is useful background information."

Well, I chose to be because folksingers were the people I admired the most. They were my heroes. I wanted to be like the people I most admired...Dylan, Baez, and Buffy Sainte-Marie...and various others in that profession.

To me there was simply no more glorious thing a person could possibly be than a great folksinger!

I see them more the way I would see other people now...just regular people, that's all.

"Now, I'm just average, common too...I've just the same as him or you...I'm everybody's brother and son...I ain't different from anyone! No use talkin' to me......it'd be the same as talkin' to you!"   - Bob Dylan, from an amusing Guthrie-esque talking blues song he did in the early 60's.