All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.