A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.