Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

When somethin's not right it's wrong.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.