It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.