Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

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.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

I don't think there's enough guns.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.