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

The sun's not yellow, its chicken!

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library -everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.