From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

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.

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.