Tolerance can lead to learning something.

I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

I relate more to the descendants of Galileo Galilei and the Wright brothers than I do to anyone else you might mention. If you could name someone working today who I could relate to, I'd be both surprised and thrilled.

There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.