To live outside the law, you must be honest.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

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

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

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

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

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

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.