“There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.”

“There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.”

“Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.”

“Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.”

“There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.”

“Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.”

“I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.”

“'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.”

“I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.”

“If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.”

“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”

“Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose".”