As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

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.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

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

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.