I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.