One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee..

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos..

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers..

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like..

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country..

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me..

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity..

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all.….

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either..

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours sol….

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis..

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan..

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, ….

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the mon….

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was ….

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception..

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular..

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it….

Production is something Ive never come to terms with..

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what..

If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician throug….