I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.