Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

When you consciously choose to do what you love, life becomes a pleasure and ceases to be a chore.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.