Yea, he was also very good at handling the media. He gives a very good interview because he has never 'played' along like he's expected to. And he always has a cryptic answer to the more inane questions. I don't think most of the media types got it. One of my favorites.
At a press conference in San Francisco in 1965.
Journalist: Do you think of yourself primarily as a singer or a poet?
Dylan: Oh, I think of myself more as a song and dance man, y'know.
Oh my.