Quotes

"Well," he said, "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" - there was a long pause, nervous laughter from the crowd - "he say, 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."

Grammy acceptance speech. From Expecting Rain

If you look at Bob's history, and first of all, I'll just say one thing. I, I pride myself on being pretty clever about figuring people out, you know, people I know in my life and people I barely even have just met. I think I'm really clever. I've never claimed to understand Bob.

Joan Baez 1996, The whole interview

I saw a new born baby with wild wolves all around it, 
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it, 
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin', 
I saw a roomful of men with their hammers a-bleedin', 
I saw a white ladder all covered with water, 
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,