Joni Mitchell

“I wish I had a river I could skate away on.”

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

“Songs are like tattoos.”

“The stupid have confidence, the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“My formal education was minimal but my coffee-house education was extensive.”

“You have to leave the door open for the unknown, the strange.”

“You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.”

“I'm a painter first, and a musician second.”

“Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel as every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way.”

“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”

“I've looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow... it's life's illusions I recall. I really don't know life at all.”

“We are stardust, we are golden... and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

“I am a lonely painter. I live in a box of paints.”

“There's comfort in melancholy.”

“Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl.”

“Responsibility is a heavy responsibility.”

“Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart.”

“I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living.”

“Love is touching souls.”

“Every picture has its shadows, and it has some source of light.”