People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

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

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.