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.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

I didn't think I had much of a following in the South. I thought I was anonymous down there so I kept to the South. But I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable and I just hit a wig store.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.