We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.

[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.