What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.