His identity was a performance ... which in one sense is a parable of artistic ruthlessness—needs a climax. And Bob Dylan, more than most rock stars, is a myth. In all senses of the word.

Although this term is typically found in a religious context, Bob Dylan claimed that the same thing happened to him and his sense of identity in the late 1960s. “I’m not like you. Am I?” ...

Someone sidles up to me, Negroni or Coke in hand, and asks, sotto voce, Have you seen the Bob Dylan movie ... I think this ability to try on a new identity — something the movie shows him ...

I have two wolves inside me: the one yearning for the ambitious, prickly kaleidoscope of several Bob ... identity with the staff of a nearby hotel. Who’s Directing? Easy: Just call up frequent ...

Aptly subtitled A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, it’s less a documentary and more a fictionalized retelling of a nonfiction event, a lovingly assembled puzzle about the artifice of art itself.

Bob Dylan tweeted, apropos of nothing, a few months back: “I ran into one of the Buffalo Sabres in the elevator at the Prague hotel … He invited me to the game but I was performing that night.” ...