I think in some ways – only in some ways – but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn’t leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
Listen to your own voice. Don’t listen to someone else’s. To me the way to live is to always move forward – to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.
My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There’s nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.
There’s a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you’re the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that’s not normal.
You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I’m liberated.
Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we’re had.
I like it if people enjoy what I’m doing, but if they don’t, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it’s good for them.
I’ll never be Bob Dylan. He’s the master.
I’m not a preacher, and I’m certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I’m kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.
If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
I don’t think there is one president that’s come down the line that hasn’t done something good somewhere.
I’m not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
I think I’m going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It’s much more down-home and real.
The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.