They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.