My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.

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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

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

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.