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.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

I don't really have a retirement plan.

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

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.