When you’re in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That’s very entertaining for me to do that. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting – the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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 there’s no hope. It doesn’t feel good in any way to sing. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
You couldn’t really like a bad guitar in 1960 ’cause everybody was pretty good. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
The back story of a songwriter isn’t important to me – I don’t listen to music needing to know who the guy is. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
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. Jakob Dylan Read Quote
