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

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

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.