All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons. . . some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.
One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, fatherson movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.
Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part of the art, and often have a relationship to the songs that have just come out or are about to come out.
In this there are no options, just response, awareness responding to knowing. All the way in and all the way out. This isn’t of the earth - this is of the everything.