The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.

Quote by Joni Mitchell

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Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some...

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some...

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a...

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a...

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it...

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it...

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best...

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best...

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to...

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to...

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

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

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

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes...

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes...

I love you when I forget about me.

I love you when I forget about me.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm...

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm...

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but...

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but...

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes...

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes...

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to...

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to...

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You...

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You...

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the...

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the...

I hate show business.

I hate show business.