Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.