I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

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 wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

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.