Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.