But seriously though, Bob....

It cheered me up to come across the Playboy Interview with Dylan, back in – oh, 1966.

Good jokes, of course, and funny locutions. More importantly – I like his refusal to answer a question until he has examined the underlying assumptions and implications of the question.

This is way before NLP, but long after General Semantics had analysed the way language hypnotises us – although people like R.D.Laing were already challenging the boorish assumptions of ‘everyday thought’ and ‘common sense’ – and back then it was considered flippant and smart-ass and rebellious whereas I read it as trying to answer the question (and its assumptions) accurately….

But then I’m a wise-ass, too.

And there's a definitive collection of interview material here.