“I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no...” — Joni Mitchell Quote

“I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.”

“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.”

“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.”

“At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for a quarter of an inch on parallel tracks. I used to look at it and wonder, 'What will happen?'”

“I go broke a lot... I go broke a lot because I have this understanding that whatever I put out there, if I really am doing what's right, it's going to be rewarding, you know?”

“When my husband and I worked as line cooks in LA, we lived in a constant state of broke and tired.”