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.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

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