His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon
The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance.
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
