At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

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