At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.