Bob Dylan’s reply, ca. 1967, to reporter Michael Iachetta:

“What I’ve been doin’ mostly is seein’ only a few close friends, readin’ little about the outside world, porin’ over books you never heard of, thinkin’ about where I’m goin’, and why am I runnin’, and am I mixed up too much, and what am I knowin’, and what am I givin’, and what am I takin’. And mainly what I’ve been doin’ is workin’ on gettin’ better and makin’ better music, which is what my life is all about.”

cited in Anthony Scaduto, Dylan: An Intimate Biography, (NY: Signet Classics, 1971), 285.