Bob Dylan

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

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

Play it f**kin’ loud!

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

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

So, uh, get ready for a barely changed version of Obamacare called Trumpcare, which sounds like a health care plan where doctors feel your breasts for lumps whether you ask them to or not.

I look like an angel, but I can play the bitch.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you’re not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

Of course it scored well! It was all fags and old people!

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We’re all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

With my platform, I want to try and do good things and help people.

I love Obama. I’m sure we’ll hang out, go to Richard Branson’s island. It’ll be cool.

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.

I picked up a guitar and found it very difficult and I sort of graduated to drums because I found them very easy – I suppose it was a case of natural aptitude. Mitch Mitchell was my role model at the time, and I still think listening to Mitch Mitchell, especially the early stuff with Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix), is just fantastic.

If I could be anyone, I’d choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

How do you expect me to see your nasty-looking eye ball if you don’t look straight ahead?

When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten-year-old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old…I think!

[on the NSA spying scandal] Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we’re just saying it’s a little bit weird you didn’t have to.

I don’t think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I’m from the bottom I think they look at me and go ‘well, if he made it, I can make it’

A friend of mine had this great theory about the “Teletubbies”, that it’s preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. When they build the underground world because we can no longer breathe the air that it will look like Teletubbie land.