At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

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.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.