My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

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

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

Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.