Personally I don't believe that Dylan ever meant all that myth stuff to be believed or taken seriously. Surely he was intelligent enough to realise that in the modern world everything is well ducumented: parent's occupations, birth certificates, church records, school records, college records, etc. He was just putting us on a little bit. I've known that such stories weren't true for about 35 years. It's time to move on and leave the personality aside and judge him only on his output. Bob wants privacy and he deserves it. Nobody owns him ("I'm nobody's puppet and nobody pulls my strings", 1986).

All Dylan did was write songs and issue records. His fans and the media did the rest.