Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part of the art, and often ….

Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind..

What is not discussed, will not be advanced..

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus.

I am one of the crucified dead..

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others..

The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his so….

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending..

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton..

My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it..

Is anything accidental?.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the ….

There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started….

The word C.R.E.A.M. - which stands for "Cash Rules Everything Around Me" - is from Wu Tang Clan. This song is about a prostitute who falls in love wi….

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and w….

Watching something is nothing like doing it..

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore..

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my….

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong..

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano..