My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.