It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.