There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

- Jay Michaelson

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee apt…

- Jay Michaelson

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinaril…

- Jay Michaelson

I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconscious…

- Jay Michaelson

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

- Jay Michaelson

Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contem…

- Jay Michaelson

Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.

- Jay Michaelson

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

- Jay Michaelson

Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by Adele, Garth Brooks, …

- Jay Michaelson