There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out. — 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
