We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

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.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

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

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.