I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.