I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.
"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.