We are ugly but we have the music.

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

Ring the bells that still can ring.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

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.

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.

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.