Bob responds …

… World exclusive: Bob Dylan - I'll be at the Nobel Prize ceremony... if I can. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

And as he talks, he starts to sound pretty pleased about becoming a Nobel laureate. “It’s hard to believe,” he muses. His name has been mentioned as on the shortlist for a number of years, but the announcement was certainly not expected. When he was first told, it was, Dylan confides, “amazing, incredible. Whoever dreams about something like that?”