I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.