Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Every trial toughens the soul.

When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.

There is even rhythm in being empty.

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.

To walk is to lack a place.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.