I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.