People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

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

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

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

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

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

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