Bob Dylan on Bob Dylan experts, ouch

In an interview conducted by Alan Jackson for The Times Magazine in 2001, before the album [Love and Theft] was released, Dylan said "these so-called connoisseurs of Bob Dylan music... I don't feel they know a thing, or have any inkling of who I am and what I'm about. I know they think they do, and yet it's ludicrous, it's humorous, and sad. That such people have spent so much of their time thinking about who? Me? Get a life, please. It's not something any one person should do about another. You're not serving your own life well. You’re wasting your life."

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Now, imagine if you were one of those Bob Dylan devotees, with your own thousand page Bob Dylan website... Probably you just shrug it off. "He's talkin' about those other guys who don't have a clue. Not ME. Heck, and I've spent hardly any time on this stuff (tears starting to roll down his face). Just a little hobby."

Now I'm crying. Life is sad, isn't it?