“Men often wanted Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead, they got a genius, and one especially suited to deconstructing their fantasies of her.”— Dan Chiasson, newyorker.comTagged: Joni Mitchell, Love, How to be a writer, Artists
“Mitchell writes about emotional information: who controls it, and how it is squandered or hoarded, withheld or weaponized. This requires some reconnaissance, which for Mitchell involves falling in and out of love, over and over—not so much a research method as a form of self-surgery.”— Dan Chiasson, newyorker.comTagged: Joni Mitchell, Love, How to be a writer, Artists