I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

This bank-note world.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

The winter does what it can for its children.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

But life’s never easy when you need it to be.