When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.