And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin

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

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.