Bob Dylan

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.

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.

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

You know, people can’t fall in love with me just because I’m good at what I do.

If you sold out the Troubadour, that was it.

People find out I’m an actress and I see that ‘whore’ look flicker across their eyes.

There are so many different definitions of ‘pretty.’ it’s so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring- nobody cares anymore.

I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

That is not a functional use of language. That is a drunk driver crashing a pickup truck full of alphabet soup.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

I believe ‘ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means ‘you’.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show her ankles to to get that job?

Gravity is nominated for best film. It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

I only cook when I’m in love.

George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected to a three-person U.N. commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award.

[on the NSA surveillance program] Mr. President, when Michele Bachmann is in your side you may want to look at the side you are on. She is the canary in the crazy mine. I myself wear a bracelet that says: ‘What wouldn’t Michele Bachmann do?’

I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley – the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you’re in your Vegas years. You’ve squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you’re wheezing your way through ‘Love Me Tender’ and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you’re still the King.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?