You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.
Bob DylanWith great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
Bob DylanI'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.
Bob DylanI play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)
Bob Dylan