People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

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

If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.