New York ? Bob Dylan’s songs may have spoken for a generation in the 1960s, but he never saw himself as more than a singer-songwriter.

“‘You’re the prophet. You’re the savior.’ I never wanted to be a prophet or a savior,” Dylan tells Ed Bradley on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Excerpts of Sunday night’s scheduled broadcast were released in advance by the network.

An interview with musician Bob Dylan will be broadcast Sunday on CBS' 60

“Elvis maybe. I could see myself becoming him,” Dylan says. “But prophet? No.”

The idea of such a perception made him feel like an “impostor,” he says.

“It was like being in an Edgar Allan Poe story and you’re just not that person everybody thinks you are, though they call you that all the time.”

He added, “If you examine the songs I don’t believe you’re going to find anything in there that says that I’m a spokesman for anybody or anything, really.”

One of Dylan’s songs, “Like a Rolling Stone,” was recently named the top song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

“No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all-time,” wrote senior editor David Fricke.

But it’s an honor Dylan downplays.

“You know, the list, they change names … quite frequently, really. I don’t pay much attention to that,” says the 63-year-old singer, who recently published his memoir, “Chronicles: Volume One.”

The interview is Dylan’s first TV interview in 19 years, according to CBS.

“60 Minutes” airs at 6 p.m. Sundays on Sunflower Broadband channels 5 and 13.