DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

Dylan frames “destiny” not as an external script imposed by fate, but as an inward, private conviction—an intuitive self-knowledge that precedes public recognition. The “picture” in one’s mind suggests an imaginative self-conception or vocation that can guide action until it becomes real. His warning about sharing it—because “someone will kill it”—highlights how fragile early aspirations can be when exposed to skepticism, ridicule, or other people’s projections. The quote thus treats destiny as something nurtured in secrecy: a personal, protective space where identity and purpose can mature before confronting the world’s judgment.