There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing..

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good..

Music should never be harmless..

You fog the mind, you stir the soul..

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country..

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me..

Record making is an extraordinary experience..

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old..

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy..

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I….

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life..

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel..

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so ….

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to p….

While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which I didn't realize I was….

making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world..

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie..

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be..