When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.