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

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

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

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