Bob Dylan

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.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

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

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way – there’s no free lunch. And when people give me all these great compliments, I thank them but still go back to my room and practice. And a lot of times I say to myself ‘I wish I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometime.’ I am not inventing anything that’s going to stop cancer or muscular distrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it.

I don’t even have people’s phone numbers. I almost don’t want to have a girlfriend in this environment.

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

I was a mostly happy child, though I had a pretty rough puberty. Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it’s good to grow up that way. It builds character.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

I took piano lessons when I was younger and I’ve been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I’d realy like to learn how to play the drums. They’re alot of fun and they require a lot of focus.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.

[on Kylie Jenner’s cover shoot] I need a half hour to cry

Twas the nizzle before chrismizzle and all through the hizzle.

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that’s why I’m so happy to be back!

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I’m very generous, and I really want people to see that I am – that’s really it.

I’m not a musician, I’m an entertainer.