The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

He not busy being born is busy dying.