Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

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

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.