Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.
The purpose of art is to stop time.
I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.
If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.
If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.