I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

You got your God and so do I.

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.