I'm just tired and bored with myself.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.