I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.