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

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.

You'll never be greater than yourself.

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.