Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

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.

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.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

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've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

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