:09:01
"I get very uptight about it.
:09:02
"There's no black and white,
left and right to me any more.
:09:06
"There's only up and down,
and down is very close to the ground.
:09:10
"And I'm trying to go up without thinking
about anything trivial, such as politics. "
:09:15
The evening that Dylan
was given the Freedom Award...
:09:19
from the Emergency Civil
Liberties Committee...
:09:22
apparently he got up, stood on his hind legs
and said he was not a political poet...
:09:26
and nobody's left wing servant...
:09:29
but an independent minstrel or something.
:09:33
And astonished and pissed everybody off...
:09:35
by not being a nice trained seal.
:09:38
People were expecting him to give
the same thing over and over again...
:09:43
in a precise manner, and a precise theory,
in a precise way, and it got creepy...
:09:47
because why should you have to
push yourself into a tunnel that isn't yours?
:09:52
I mean, you're driving along
and all these roads are apparent.
:09:55
Why do you have to take that tunnel,
and go in and it's literally a tunnel...
:09:59
because it's political in its theory?
:10:02
Whereas you're out there, driving around...
:10:03
with all this other scenery going on,
and that's what you're bringing out.
:10:06
I was like an outsider, anyway.
:10:09
I'd come to town as an outsider,
and still, in a lot of ways...
:10:13
I was still more outside
than I ever was, really.
:10:16
They were trying to make me an insider
to some kind of trip they were on.
:10:19
I don't think so.
:10:29
Through the mad mystic hammering
:10:33
of the wild ripping hail
:10:37
The sky cracked its poems
:10:40
in naked wonder
:10:45
That the clinging of the church bells
:10:49
blew far into the night
:10:52
Leaving only bells of lightning
:10:56
and its thunder