I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

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

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.