Rock legend Bob Dylan performs in Ho Chi Minh city in this file photograph. Dylan took to his website to dispute accusations he bowed to censorship for his first ever concerts in China last month. Dylan was criticized by Western media and by Human Rights Watch for not performing some of his best-known protest songs on his China tour in April.
"That's one of the aspects of Chronicles Two and Chronicles Three. It would definitely start with records," he told Rolling Stone in an interview published in the September 27 issue.
The 2004 publication Chronicles: Volume One was extremely well received, even becoming one of the National Book Critics' Circle Award nominees in 2005.
Later, internet sleuths pointed out similarities between some of Chronicles' enchanting turns of phrase and those attributed to work by Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Proust, Carl Sandburg, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe -- even Henry Rollins and Time Magazine.
Dylan's response to accusations arising over these sorts of similarities came elsewhere in the Rolling Stone exchange.
"Oh, yeah, in folk and jazz, quotation is a rich and enriching tradition. That certainly is true. It's true for everybody, but me. There are different rules for me. And as far as [Civil War poet] Henry Timrod is concerned, have you even heard of him? Who's been reading him lately? And who's pushed him to the forefront? Who's been making you read him?"