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 say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.
I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
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.
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
Democracy don’t rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
There is nothing so stable as change.
I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.
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.
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.
I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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