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In this new department, Bob Dylan answers one question about his music and/or his life each month. If you have questions for Mr. Dylan, Click Here to send them to the editor. There's no guarantee that Mr. Dylan will answer your question, but you never know.
April 2007
 his month, Mr. Dylan answers questions about "going electric," posed to him by the writer Nat Hentoff in 1966.
Hentoff: What made you decide to go the rock and roll route?
Bob Dylan: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I move in with a high school teacher who does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?
And that's how you became a rock and roll singer?
No, that's how I got tuberculosis.
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