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.

Technology changes nothing.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

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

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.

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