His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.

I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.

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.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

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

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm