The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

The people in my songs are all me.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.