Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

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

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

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