An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly… - Bob Dylan

It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.

A song is like a dream, and you have to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback — it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks and knives
And they gotta cut something