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.
Joni MitchellBack then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
Joni MitchellHe saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
Joni MitchellMy childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
Joni Mitchell