<P> Dylan biographer Robert Shelton gave this interpretation: "A song that seems to hail the dropout life for those who can take it segues into compassion for those who have dropped out of bourgeois surroundings .' Rolling Stone' is about the loss of innocence and the harshness of experience . Myths, props, and old beliefs fall away to reveal a very taxing reality ." </P> <P> Dylan humorously commented on the song's moral perspective at a press conference at KQED television studio on December 3, 1965 . When a reporter, suggesting that the song adopted a harsh perspective on a girl, asked Dylan, "Are you hard on (people in your songs) because you want to torment them? Or to change their lives and make them know themselves?", Dylan replied while laughing, "I want to needle them ." </P> <P> Commentators attempted to tie the characters in the song to specific people in Dylan's personal life in 1965 . In his book POPism: The Warhol' 60s, Andy Warhol recalled that some people in his circle believed that "Like a Rolling Stone" contained hostile references to him; he was told, "Listen to' Like a Rolling Stone'--I think you're the diplomat on the chrome horse, man ." The reason behind Dylan's alleged hostility to Warhol was supposedly Warhol's treatment of actress and model Edie Sedgwick . It has been suggested that Sedgwick is the basis of the Miss Lonely character . Sedgwick was briefly involved with Dylan in late 1965 and early 1966, around which time there was some discussion of the two making a movie together . According to Warhol's collaborator Paul Morrissey, Sedgwick may have been in love with Dylan, and was shocked when she found out that Dylan had secretly married Sara Lownds in November 1965 . However, in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, Michael Gray argues that Sedgwick had no connection with "Like a Rolling Stone", but states "there's no doubt that the ghost of Edie Sedgwick hangs around Blonde on Blonde". </P> <P> Greil Marcus alluded to a suggestion by art historian Thomas E. Crow that Dylan had written the song as a comment on Warhol's scene: </P>

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