A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.