Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.