They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

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.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.