david hajdu in his new book, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2001) relates:
<<... Joni Mitchell told me she complimented him <<Dylan>> on Jokerman from
Infidels." 'Oh, I didn't write that, the box did,' he said. 'What do you
mean?' she asked. He explained he writes down phrases people say to him, or
things he overhears in restaurants, then puts them in a box. Whenever he needs
a song, he just reaches into the box and pulls something out.">>
in duluth, you get your munchies fix at "Bob-in-the-Box"...
Strange Boy
