"The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots."

"Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."

"And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you."

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."

"I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed."

"It's not easy to define poetry."

"Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again."

"I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type."

"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."

"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."

"You can never be wise and be in love at the same time."

"Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."

"I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else."

"How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?"

"We are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep."

"I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon."

"It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry."

"All I can be is me- whoever that is."

"Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere."

"I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds."

"Songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with."

"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

"Chaos is a friend of mine."

"I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave."

"I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio."

"Once upon a time You dressed so fine."

"A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."

"Reality has too many heads."

"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."

"People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tight I'm out of range, I use to care but things have changed."

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."

"The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe new order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'."

"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

"When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose."

"My father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same."

"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."

"People talk about egos as if it were objects."

"I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My family was my light and I was going to protect that light at all cost. That was where my dedication was, first, last and everything in-between. What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. Not a damn thing."

"Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be."

"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

"There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again."

"I'm happy to just be able to come across things. I don't need to be happy. Happiness is a kind of cheap word. Let's face it, I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. I would commit suicide. I would shoot myself in the brain if things got bad. I would jump from a window you know, I can think about death openly. It's nothing to fear. It's nothing sacred. I've seen so many people die. Life's not sacred either."

"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."

"Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular."

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.From the back pages."

"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief..."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change."

"It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you."