From punk poet to 2009 bluegrass master via four decades of rock, R&B, ballet and country, he's the consummate musical polymath and arguably the world's finest songwriter. Recently described by Timemagazine as the greatest songwriter in the English language, it only seems fitting that GQ has awarded him the GQ Outstanding Achievement Award 2009.
"At one point, my life was much more complicated than the most inaccurate and sensationalised versions that have been printed."
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