I 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)

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".