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.

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.