I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.
From Joni Mitchell
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
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