56 Quotes by Jakob Dylan

I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

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

It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.