Quotes from Joni Mitchell

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Happiness is the best facelift.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.

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

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

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

I believe that I am male and I am female.