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

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.

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

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.