Joni Mitchell

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

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

“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.”

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

“Songs are like tattoos.”

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

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

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

“Love is touching souls.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“There's comfort in melancholy.”

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

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

“Responsibility is a heavy responsibility.”

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

“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.”