I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. . . . Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. . . . Music should never be harmless. . . . I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.
It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.