You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

The Beatles and I became fast friends.

I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.

I meditate every day and do some hatha yoga every day.

Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie.

I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.

I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth.

A young person coming up and saying, 'I absolutely love your music,' is very encouraging.

Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song.

My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background.

I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.

The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.

I think my legacy is important because my songs - perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know - cover every movement from 1965 on, socially and artistically. If you want songs about ecology, I've got ecology songs; if you want songs about spirituality, I've got spiritual songs.

It seems to be very clear that each new generation that comes - not only audiences but young bands as well - are very encouraged and enthused and inspired by my work.

I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.'

The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.

The Faces are my old chums. We used to hang out.

Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever. We are in the Chinese astrology of dogs, and we are forever snapping at each other.

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness.