Fair enough but saying you wish Dylan wasn't a dick(i.e. you wish he was Leonard Cohen) makes no sense to me. There are lots of artists in all fields who's work I enjoy but I wouldn't want to know them personally because they are dicks. I used to romanticize the artist who was insane, alcoholic, syphilitic, or whatever I thought made their art trancsendant, but since I've been sober now for 30 years(I'm 60) I know that's a load of crap. You may have more than I do to base your personal opinion of Dylan on, all I know is his work, which I have been following 45 years, has often influenced my own thinking about many issues and even when I find his message disagreeable(Slow Train Coming) I can still appreciate the power and honesty of it. Perhaps I am influenced by my age and knowledge of certain issues that don't seem relevant any more, for instance what was behind Hurricane and why he sang it and how I and my peers reacted to it, after all Ruben Carter has long been released from prison and maybe dead for all I know. Maybe I do give Dylan too much credit but I was a witness to what truly was pioneering art and if it came about because of, or in spite of, his being a dick, so be it.