Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.