The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait

Author: Daniel Mark Epstein
New York: Harper Collins, 2011

This is a terrific biography of Dylan, highlighting aspects of his creativity and passion.

“Greed and lust I can understand, but I can’t understand the values of definition and confinement” (1976)

“Things will have to change. And one of those things that will have to change: People will have to change their internal world” (2001)

—Bob Dylan, as quoted in Epstein, 2011, pages 251 and 387 (emphasis in original).