Joni Mitchell

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.