I can't really say that I deeply studied him. I liked Whitman as a man. I liked his charitable efforts. I liked that he did what he could to help people during the Civil War, doing what he could to just give comfort and counsel to dying soldiers. When you last played here with Dylan you mentioned something about New Jersey getting a bad rap.
People are very territorial.
I'm guilty of it. I was brought up in a rural area and very desirous to get out. I ended up going to New York. I spent a lot of time at the Philadelphia Art Museum during the Brancusi show. It's the first art museum I ever walked into.