The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.