"I gotta say, I don’t know any 23-year-old that cares about any of this stuff: Homer, Charley Patton, Grant... How did you get into this stuff?"

"Again, I got my eye on being one of them. To me, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, it’s really three sides of the same coin to me. It’s the American canon. This is what our country is. I hope the Republic lasts forever, but if it doesn’t, this is the stuff we will be judged by by future generations. Look, Lincoln was the first writer, Twain after him, to write American as if American was a language itself. And I actually studied Lincoln’s writings a lot. And the reason is because every line says something. Every line is important. There’s never any stuff that’s not supposed to be there."

From "Bob Dylan’s Grandson Pablo Explains Why He Went From Hip-Hop to Folk-Rock/He’s just 23, but Pablo Dylan already says he wants to be 'the biggest star in the world'" (Rolling Stone).