I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

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

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

New Orleans is a unique environment.

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

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.