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

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

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

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.

You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.