When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.