I kinda need a hit, I guess. I mean, I m real pleased that people seem to like this album better than the last few but a little more commercial action wouldn t go amiss. Run Fast . I was singing love songs when the fashion was for cynicism. But everything comes round.
People always come back to romance.
Alongside romance, Joni Mitchell s signature has been her literate songwriting, images constructed like a landscape seen from a passing train, fragments of narrative caught in motion and imbued with a painter s sense of composition. Well, my work reflects the migration of my life. I was brought up in a tiny hamlet, a place where teams of horses delivered the fresh water for the village. For a long time, I found cities tragic. In New York, I was a girl from the prairies with a severe case of the bends.