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(Do you ever make yourself cry when you write?) No, never. I’m not a weeper. I’m a snarler. I just put all the weeping in the words. The words are the weeping.

— Joni Mitchell Interview (2021)

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Truth and beauty. That’s what I hope to deliver.

Interview (2021)

In New York, constantly, the street is challenging you to relate to it.

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I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

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I've got nervous energy like a kid, still.

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