The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

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

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

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

[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.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.