I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit..

I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times we live in today - I mean, the….

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity..

Tolerance can lead to learning something..

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

A guilty conscience means at least you have one..

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 ….

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….

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..

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

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

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….