I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

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.

During times like these, the wise are influential.