Bob Dylan

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

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

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

I think Viagra is wonderful if you need it, if you have medical issues, if you’ve had surgery. I’ve just never needed it. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect. I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky. I don’t need it.

I got the mumps. They threw me in a crib so I wouldn’t roll out onto the floor. And there’s a big bay window in my house, and that window stayed perfectly still until that train started to chug. At a certain speed, I could reach up and feel the pane, and that glass pane would vibrate. I said, Doggone, there’s got to be a reason for this. So I go to the kindergarten teacher, and she takes me to the science teacher, and the science teacher takes me to the library and reads it off to me — “This is called resonance.” That was the beginning.

A lot of people undermine their own anxiety because they’re like…nothing’s necessarily going wrong. It just happens and it’s just inside of you and that’s not something you should be ashamed of. It’s justified because it’s happening.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

After the accident, I had to reconstruct myself completely. I was taught to see again and to hear with hearing aids. My body had to be completely reprogrammed. And music therapy was at the core of the healing process.

You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it?

When individuals have access to the information about their bodies they can begin to change outcomes.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

[on depression] This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am on of them. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.