motherwell wrote:
What Dylan believes is his own business. If he wants to make any sort of comment on them, he will do it through his music as usual
Exactly, and the most explicit one in recent times was more than five years ago:
~ MP3 ~ SAVING GRACE ~ JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA ~ AUGUST 29, 2012 ~
http://www.notdarkyet.org/120829grace.mp3[and I assume that nothing on "Trouble No More" was released against his will, if that counts for anything]
Oh, and also, ...
On February 6th 2015, in Los Angeles, after being presented by President Jimmy Carter with the MusiCares Person of the Year 2015 award, Bob Dylan delivered a long acceptance speech (published online by Rolling Stone three days later). Here is a small part of that speech which included a reading of the first three of five verses of the beautiful gospel song "Stand By Me" from 1905, written by Charles Albert Tindley.
"... The Blackwood Brothers were talking to me about making a record together. That might confound expectations, but it shouldn't. Of course it would be a gospel album. I don't think it would be anything out of the ordinary for me. Not a bit. One of the songs I'm thinking of singing is "Stand By Me" with the Blackwood Brothers. Not "Stand By Me" the pop song. No. The real "Stand By Me." The real one goes like this:

When the storms of life are raging stand by me
When the storms of life are raging stand by me
When the world is tossing me like a ship upon the sea
Thou who rules the wind and water stand by me
In the midst of tribulation stand by me
In the midst of tribulation stand by me
When the hosts of hell assail and my strength begins to fail
Thou who's never lost a battle stand by me
In the midst of fault and failure stand by me
In the midst of fault and failure stand by me
When I do the best I can and my friends don't understand
Thou who knowest all about me stand by me
That's the song. I like it better than the pop song. If I record one by that name, that's going to be the one. ..."