Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

The people in my songs are all me.

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

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

And I'll know my song well before I start singing