There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no o….

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong onl….

There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. Bu….

The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was to match his body of….

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's so….

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well..

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it..

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's..

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades t….

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king..

I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain la….

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes th….

I think that these are different times, and different things are available to artists, and certain things have become passé. You've already seen the ….

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on.

I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs s….

I relate more to the descendants of Galileo Galilei and the Wright brothers than I do to anyone else you might mention. If you could name someone wor….

I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to G….

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed..

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one..