Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.