If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.

All my friends are so small town.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.