Bob employed the same tactics with the "New Musical Express" (UK) questionairre in '65 when "Times" was in the UK top 10. It was a standard thing called, I think, "Lifelines", with questions like:

What was you mother's name

Your favourite colour

Favourite Beatle.

Bob's answers were, as you might imagine, quite ludicrous, but hilariously funny, or so I thought at the time. I can't remember any of the original but it included things like:

mother's name. Marilym Munroe

favourite Beatle: Murph the Snurd, or was it Shakespeare; stuff like that!

The NME, unused to such independence, headlined the story "Bob Dylan Wrote This"!

I recall being surprised, not to say shocked: but the "interview" confirmed what the first 5 albums had told me: that we had an original on our hands.