You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.
"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.
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.
But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.