I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Let there be more darkness

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.