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

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

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

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.