Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

How can you live in the Northeast?

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.