

But, shit, I didn't write them for that reason. They'd like to use my tunes for different beer companies and perfumes and automobiles.I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times. They don't know where the music comes from. I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviors of rock 'n' roll and all that, but they are amateurs.Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, "Son," he said, "you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you, and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.Oh, some are about four minutes some are about five, and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12.Maybe not, but the stuff I write does come from an autobiographical place. Critics usually don't like a song like this coming out of me because it didn't seem to be autobiographical.I don't even know what a good husband is. I've only written four songs in my whole life, but I've written those four songs a million times.At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.A lot of people can't stand touring, but to me it's like breathing.I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. I consider myself a poet first and a musician second.The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. All I can do is be me, whoever that is.I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change. I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future.I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. I like America, just as everybody else does.I say there're no depressed words, just depressed minds.I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.Maybe in the '90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the '80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.People seldom do what they believe in.They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. People today are still living off the table scraps of the '60s.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast.* don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it.What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
