“You can make something lasting. You wanna stop time, that’s what you wanna do. You want to live forever, right, Allen? Huh? In order to live forever, you have to stop time. In order to stop time, you have to exist in the moment, so strong as to stop time and prove your point. And if you succeed in doing that, everyone who comes in contact with what you’ve done — whatever it might be, whether you’ve carved a statue or painted a painting — will catch some of that; they’ll recognize that you have stopped time. They won’t realize it, but that’s what they’ll recognize, that you have stopped time. That’s a heroic feat!
– Bob Dylan to the poet Allen Ginsberg, 1977.
From the book Bob Dylan – Performing Artist 1986-1990 & Beyond Mind Out Of Time
by Paul Williams