In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. Bu biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.