If everyone has a calling, what’s yours? And the bigger question: through so much noise and distraction, will you answer it? Bob Dylan weighs in.
Mikal Gilmore: You’ve described what you do not as a career but as a calling.
Everybody has a calling, don’t they? … Everybody is called but few are chosen. There is a lot of distraction for people, so you might not never find the real you. A lot of people don’t.
Mikal Gilmore: How would you describe your calling?
Mine? Not any different than anybody else’s. Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it — highly skilled. It’s about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you’re the best whether anybody else tells you that or not.
Rolling Stone, Interview with Bob Dylan by Mikal Gilmore, September 27, 2012