Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.