People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.