Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

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.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.