I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
