I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.