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.

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

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

If you are silent at wrong things happening on your life time, you are destroying your children's future to the next fourth generation to come.

Make mistakes. Take chances. Be silly. Be imperfect. Trust yourself and follow your bliss.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.