I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.