Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

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.

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.