ON HIS CHILDHOOD IN MINNESOTA

Making clear that he grew up in northern Minnesota — it “has its own Mason Dixon line,” he said — Dylan spoke about the “extreme” weather, “frostbite in the winter, mosquito-ridden in the summer, no air conditioning when I grew up, steam heat in the winter and you had to wear a lot of clothes when you went outdoors.” But he found strength in the elements.

“Your blood gets thick. It’s the land of 10,000 lakes — lot of hunting and fishing. Indian country, Ojibwa, Chippewa, Lakota, birch trees, open pit mines, bears and wolves — the air is raw. … In the north it’s more hardscrabble ...”