Canadian - Musician | November 7, 1943 -
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
Joni Mitchell
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Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
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I'm a Buddhist.
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The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
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America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
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When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
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I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.
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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
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I believe that I am male and I am female.
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I see bodies as individual things.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
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