Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.