I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.