Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

The one who is not being born is dying.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.