Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

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

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

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 don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.