Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

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.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.

Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn't taste as sweet.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.