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

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.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.