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

[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 lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

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.

People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.