Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you

The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

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