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

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.