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.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

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

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.