Just became a fan of Paul Simon...

...via this quote (in Mark Kurlansky's "1968: The Year that Rocked the World"):

"...the lyrics of pop songs are so banal that if you show a spark of intelligence, they call you a poet. If you say you're not a poet, then people think you're putting yourself down. But the people who call you a poet are people who never read poetry. Like poetry was something defined by Bob Dylan."