He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

The people in my songs are all me.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.