There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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.
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.