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?” ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...