Quotes from Joni Mitchell

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

Love is touching souls.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

They paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lot.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

We are stardust,We are golden,And we've got to get ourselvesBack to the garden.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strongAnd everywhere there was song and celebrationAnd I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the skyAnd they were turning into butterflies above our nation

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

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

I hate show business.