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 don't really have a retirement plan.

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

I was never a topical songwriter.

I didn't come out of a cereal box.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.