It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.