I had everything I need to get me killed.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

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

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.