If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.