Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 11

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

I didn't think I had much of a following in the South. I thought I was anonymous down there so I kept to the South. But I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable and I just hit a wig store.

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.