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"Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle."
"People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups."
"I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities."
"I was always jealous of something getting more attention."
"I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them."
"Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke."
"People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state."
"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
"Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally."
"If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church."
"Using the word weird implies that there is a norm."
"I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other."
"As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end."