Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

The search is in the doing.

"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.

That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.