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

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

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 think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.