Top 102 Quotes by Joni Mitchell

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I'm a Buddhist.

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

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

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

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.