It Is A Sure Sign That A

Punk To Me Was A Form Of Free Speech. It Was A Moment When Suddenly All Kinds Of Strange Voices That No Reasonable Person Could Ever Have Expected To Hear In Public Were Being Heard All Over The Place.

I Never Could Understand - It Was Impossible For Me To Get My Head Around - What The Furor Was, What The Sense Of Betrayal And Anger And Rage Was About Bob Dylan's Beginning To Perform With A Band, To Play Rock-and-roll, To Get On The Radio.

I Had Tremendous Fun Fooling Around With The Way People Talked About Songs, Just The Way That Became Another Way Of Understanding The World.

Hearing Things Like 'wake Up' By Lora Logic, Or The Raincoats' 'in Love' - That Was Something I Wasn't Prepared For. I Couldn't Hear Anything That Came Before It In The Music, And I Didn't Want To. I Was Absolutely In Love With Its Out-of-nowhereness.

If Bob Dylan Really Is An Historian In And Of Himself In His Work, In His Performances, He Is Also An Historian With A Unique Sense Of Humor. There's Always Been A Bit Of A Stand-up Comic In Him.