Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

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.