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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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.

Tears and fears and feeling proud to say 'I love you' right out loud.

Tears and fears and feeling proud to say 'I love you' right out loud.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

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...

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what...

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what...

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...

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...

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...

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...

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never...

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never...

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...

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...

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...

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do...

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do...

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...

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid...

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid...

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

I hate show business.

I hate show business.

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

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

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and...

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and...