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.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory