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I ain't ever satisfied.
The revolution starts now.
I don't usually read reviews.
You can't write if you don't read.
New Orleans is a unique environment.
Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
I had everything I need to get me killed.
Music was very influential on me as a kid.
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.
My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.
I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.
People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.
Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.
I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.