Bob Dylan

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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’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.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I think it’s a responsibility, but like Tupac Shakur, I’m a real model. Which means: I’m not pretending to be something that I’m not, because like he said, people are going to be disappointed when they find out who you are, because it’s not going to be what you presented to the world. So just keep it real. I’m a good kid and that’s all.

It’s been quite a journey. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world!

I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.

You haven’t been around here long, have you.

I used to be better looking than this.

I sometimes do worry that actors are people’s role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things just get paid nothing. And they put us on the cover of magazines. They should be our heroes. I find it all a bit dubious.

D.C. went under federal control in 1801 and it wasn’t until the 1960s that D.C.’s then three quarters of a million citizens, mostly African American, were given even the most basic electoral rights … With that level of restriction the mayor of D.C. gets to run the city the way a school council president gets to run her high school.

Our recent travels have taken this wild whirlwind of a band though many incredible and inspiring places…. Having just begun work on our new album, we thought we’d take time out to raise a little sand and welcome springtime with one more adventure, another celebration of life and song.

I didn’t know how to throw a punch – why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I didn’t think my career would last this long, and it’s still going.

If I had to describe (the past ten years) I would say ‘blessed’. Blessed and highly favoured, because the things that have happened to me have been once in a lifetime.

I’m a woman now.

I only cook when I’m in love.

There’s only one person for every job. You can try all you want, but if you’re not right for it, you’re not gonna get it.