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.

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

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

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

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

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