May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.