The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Take no moment for granted.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.

Long live the dead because we live in them.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.