I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.