Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.