Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.