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.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

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

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

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

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

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