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.
Joni MitchellThe thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
Joni Mitchell