Jakob Dylan

My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got…

— Jakob Dylan

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind…

— Jakob Dylan

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

— Jakob Dylan

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song,…

— Jakob Dylan

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

— Jakob Dylan

Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be…

— Jakob Dylan

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and…

— Jakob Dylan

There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And…

— Jakob Dylan

I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time.…

— Jakob Dylan

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people…

— Jakob Dylan

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

— Jakob Dylan

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…

— Jakob Dylan

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

— Jakob Dylan

We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the…

— Jakob Dylan

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

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified…

— Jakob Dylan

I think that these are different times, and different things are available to artists, and certain things have become passé. You've already…

— Jakob Dylan

If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other…

— Jakob Dylan

I relate more to the descendants of Galileo Galilei and the Wright brothers than I do to anyone else you might mention.…

— Jakob Dylan

It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band…

— Jakob Dylan

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

— Jakob Dylan

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

— Jakob Dylan

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it…

— Jakob Dylan

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

— Jakob Dylan

I'm a very upbeat, positive, optimistic type of person.

— Jakob Dylan