He said: "If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I'd have to start with Buddy Holly... He was the archetype. Everything I wasn't and wanted to be."
Dylan said he travelled "a hundred miles” to see his “powerful and electrifying” performance.
He continued: "Out of the blue, the most uncanny thing happened. He looked me right straight dead in the eye, and he transmitted something. Something I didn't know what. And it gave me the chills.
"It was a day or two after that that his plane went down… somebody handed me a Lead Belly record with the song Cottonfields on it. And that record changed my life right then and there."
Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy which awards the prize, wrote in a blog post: “Now that the Lecture has been delivered, the Dylan adventure is coming to a close.”
