- [addressing young people who may romanticize the 1960s] Don't just ape our movement. Don't do hippie poses. Look at us. Admit to yourself that we only took it so far. Build from where we left off.
- I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, "Yeah, we were the best". That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
- My favorite line in all of literature is Rudyard Kipling's monkey: "My people are the wisest people in the jungle, my people have always said so."
- When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
- I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.
- We all suffer from our loneliness, but at the time of Blue our pop stars never admitted these things. Now, I'm a public person, and my life's an open book.
- I'm only a groupie for Picasso and Leonard (Cohen).
- [on the possibility that Taylor Swift might be portraying her on screen] All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones.
- [on Bob Dylan] Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.
- [on Madonna] Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point.
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