I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

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.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

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

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.