Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong

The one who is not being born is dying.

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

I was down in the sewer with some little lover.

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.