An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

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.

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

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.

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.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.