Joni Mitchell

I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all

In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing

We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

you dont know what you got till its gone

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

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

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 see music as fluid architecture.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

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

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

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.