You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.