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

The one who is not being born is dying.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.