The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.