The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

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

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

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.