56 Quotes by 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.

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

Music is something I really have a need to do – I don’t seem to be able to stop.

Some people just can't get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.

If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.

I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.

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

I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.