'Dylan really does live a most weird life. Mostly on the road, doing around 100 appearances a year, and travels for ten out of 12 months.
'He has a month of Summer break, which he spends with his children and grandchildren in Malibu. In the mid-winter he likes to go to his home in Minnesota and spend Winter there. It's a country house and his brother lives next door. It's about 100 miles away from where he was born, near to the border with Canada.
'When the children were young he would put them in an old pick-up truck and they would go to the movies or go skating, so they did live a fairly regular life.
'He's not a recluse, but he is certainly not part of the main stream. I think in his entire career he has only ever done one chat show.'
Dylan's main home is near Malibu and was built to his specifications in the Seventies. At the centre of the house is a circular room beneath a copper dome.
The house is built on a large piece of land and, over the years, Dylan has bought up the land around it, which gives him an enormous amount of privacy. He is alone there - aside from his security men - most of the time when he isn't touring.
One lover, Susan Ross, who was with him for a dozen years from the mid-Eighties, asked him why they could not live together. 'Because I can barely live with myself,' he replied.
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