“I’m not reluctant to talk about my songwriting, not no one has ever really asked me the right things,” Dylan says, grinning. “I just tried to be brief, remember kind of how things happened. I’m not really a nostalgia freak. Every time you see my name, it’s ‘the sixties this, the sixties that’. It’s just another way of categorizing me.” In the Biograph booklet, he says, “I had the chance to clarify a lot of wrong things said about me. It was a chance to set a few things straight.”
The one songwriting secret Dylan does not divulge is how he does it. “It’s still hard for me to talk about playing, about songwriting. It’s like a guy digging a ditch. It’s hard to talk about how the dirt feels on the shovel.”