How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

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.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.