I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.