I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.