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 we live in today - I mean, there's a lot to work with. But I think… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was to match his body of work, then anyone you might mention alive or dead is a… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
