I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

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.

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

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.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

Love is like a rubber band, Both pull on, one release And it hurts the person who has held it.

Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.

I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out.

We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.