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

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

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.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

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