You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.