The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.