More from Bob

     From the book Bob Dylan, The Essential Interviews:

pg. 175 "The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do?"

pg. 370  (interviewer on first line) Dylan told me that he doesn't consider himself to be a profressional songwriter.  "For me it's always been more con-fessional than pro-fessional."

pg. 415 "I have to impress myself first, and unless I'm speaking in a certain language to my own self, I don't feel anything less than that will do for the public, really."

pg. 426 (of his album Love & Theft)  "If it's a great album - which I hope it is - it's a great album because it deals with great themes.  It speaks in a noble language."