I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

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

I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)