All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

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

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

The revolution starts now.

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