I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

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.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.

Were men and women ever really just friends?

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.

I saw the Eagle Tree for the first time on the third Monday of the month of March, which I guess could be considered auspicious if I believed in magic or superstition or religion...

I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.