Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

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

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

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

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

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.

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