There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

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.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth