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" Torah values are the ones that inform my life. "

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" Music is the emotional life of most people. "

" Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! "

" There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion. "

" I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang. "

" Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. "

" There were times that I thought I was good looking. "

" There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. "

" All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels. "

" I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion. "

" As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now. "

" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "

" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "

" I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. "

" When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. "

" I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. "

" I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things. "

" To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. "

" When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. "

" The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way. "

" One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen. "

" I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. "

" My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. "

" Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. "

" As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest. "

" We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? "

" Success is survival. "

" And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. "

" I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. "

" I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. "

" The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show. "