Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

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

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

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.

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.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.