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.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Chaos is a friend of mine. (December 9, 1985)

Well, what the hell is there to say? After an interviewer told him: 'They say Dylan never talks.'

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

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

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas. (Feb. 13, 1992)

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. Interview published with the Biograph album set (1985)