Joni Mitchell

"…I liked playing the coffeehouses, where I could step off the stage and go sit in the audience and be comfortable, or where there wasn’t a barrier between me and my audience in the clubs. The big stag…"

"She is of course well past the stage of having to prove herself artistically. She is in possession of one of the most extraordinary song catalogs of the past half-century. Her chords break harmonic ru…"

"Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation."

"…This is a period of relaxation for me, but there are still some weeds that need pulling. I kind of go with Thumper, you know, from Bambi. “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” …"

"There's been a tremendous amount of growth. An actress is not expected to continue to play her ingenue roles, you know, I've written myself roles to grow into gracefully, but there is no growing into …"

"I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out."

"I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning."

"Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release."