Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share
