I don't want to see 'em taken advantage of, people callin' 'em and everything. . . . . I just don't think it's a good thing in principle. I remind him that people in the public eye are routinely subjected to media scrutiny. I've got a theory about that. Subconsciously, they didn't want him to grow up.
People call it the America dream.
But when you say the next stage is more interesting to you, really you're still talking about that same walking cliche theme. That theme you saw in the first album is still there, and it's gonna be there as long as I'm alive. Forbert shuts himself in the bathroom. I look out at the lights of Atlanta and think about it. Certainly his music is very much his own, and much closer to being pure pop than Dylan's ever way.