"People tell me it's a sinTo know and feel too much within."

"What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

"If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same."

"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."

"Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!"

"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

"The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last."

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

"I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth."

"But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

"Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid."

"If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying."

"To live outside the law, you must be honest."

"There is nothing so stable as change."

"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."

"Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad."

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act."

"Play it fuckin' loud!"

"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."

"Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past."

"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

"DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside."

"You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing."

"When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?"

"You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary."

"The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted -in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations, defy them. If you were an indecisive person, you could become a leader and wear lederhosen. If you were a housewife, you could become a glamour girl with rhinestone sunglasses. Are you slow witted? No worries -you can be an intellectual genius. If you're old, you can be young. Anything was possible. It was almost like a war against the self."

"Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind."

"I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine."

"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."

"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."

"A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding."

"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."

"No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know you're not alone."

"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

"It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be..."

"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

"Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there's no exit in any direction'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes."

"Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine."

"But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer."

"Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back."

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

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."