But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.