I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

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.

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

The naked truth is still taboo.

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

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

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)