I'd Like To Incite People To Break

Life Doesn't Imitate Art...it Is Art!

In One Way, I Was Always Hip. I Was Hip In Kindergarten. I Was Different From The Others. There Was Something Wrong With Me, I Thought, Because I Seemed To See Things People Didn't See. I Always Saw Things In A Hallucinatory Way.

When I Started, Rock And Roll Itself Was The Basic Revolution To People Of My Age And Situation. We Needed Something Loud And Clear To Break Through All The Unfeeling And Repression That Had Been Coming Down On Us Kids.

I Don't Mind People Putting Us Down, Because If Everybody Really Liked Us, It Would Be A Bore. You've Got To Have People Putting You Down. It Doesn't Give Any Edge To It If Everybody Just Falls Flat On Their Face Saying, "you're Great." We Enjoy Some Of The Criticisms As Well, They're Quite Funny; Some Of The Clever Criticisms, Not The Ones That Don't Know Anything, But Some Of The Clever Ones Are Quite Fun.

In Paris In 1964 Was The First Time I Ever Heard Dylan At All. Paul Got The Record (the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) From A French Dj. For Three Weeks In Paris We Didn't Stop Playing It. We All Went Potty About Dylan.