When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Bob Dylan roots are showing big time.

The poetry of country music will survive.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children`s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. ... Johnny Cash will, like Will Rogers, stand forever as a symbol of intelligence, creativity, compassion and common sense.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.