My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

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

Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all the songs about love and all the movies and all the books, there doesn't seem to be any way that we can prepare the human heart for this experience.

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.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.