Bob Dylan

I don't know what I'm doing half the time. And I like it that way.

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm just trying to make a good record.

I don't think about my legacy. I just think about the next song.

I'm not a singer. I'm just a guy who sings.

I don't have any messages in my songs. They're just songs.

I'm not interested in being understood. I'm interested in being heard.

I don't know what makes a song a hit. I just write them.

I'm not a spokesman for a generation. I'm a spokesman for myself.

I don't write songs to make people happy. I write songs to make them think.

I'm not interested in fame. I'm interested in the truth.

I'm just trying to stay alive and out of trouble.

I don't have any heroes. I just have people I admire.

I'm not a political person. I'm an artist.

I don't like to talk about my songs. I just like to sing them.

I'm not trying to make a statement. I'm just trying to make a song.

I don't think I'm a genius. I just think I'm lucky.

I'm not writing and singing for anybody, to tell you the truth. Hey, really, I don't care what people say. I don't care what they make me seem to be or what they tell other people.

Folk music destroyed itself. Nobody destroyed it. Folk music is still here -- it's always going to be here, if you want to dig it. It's not that it's going in or out.

You don't write the kind of songs I write just being a conventional type of songwriter.

My songs are personal music; they're not communal.