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.

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

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

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.

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.