Notes

Introduction

  1. Friedrich Nietzsche, “Prologue,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Middlesex: Penguin, 1961), 49.
  2. Martin Heidegger, “What Are Poets For?” Poetry, Language, Thought (New York: Perennial Classics, HarperCollins, 1971), 92.

Chapter One Lady Looked Like a Dude: Impersonation and Identity

  1. Neil Strauss, “The Hissing of a Living Legend,” New York Times, October 4, 1998.
  2. Alice Echols, “Thirty Years with a Portable Lover,” L.A. Weekly, November 25, 1994.
  3. Angela LaGreca, “Joni Mitchell,” Rock Photo (June 1985).
  4. Patrick Nagle, “... Ssshhhhhh... Listen, Listen to Joni,” Weekend Magazine, January 11, 1969.
  5. Neil Strauss, “Joni with an ‘I,’” New York Times, October 18, 1998.
  6. Barney Hoskyns, “Our Lady of the Sorrows,” Mojo (December 1994).
  7. LaGreca, “Joni Mitchell.”
  8. Hoskyns, “Our Lady of the Sorrows.”
  9. Marci McDonald, “Joni Mitchell Emerges from her Retreat,” Toronto Star, February 9, 1974.
  10. Melanie Klein, The Psycho-Analysis of Children (London: Hogarth Press, 1932).
  11. Carl Jung, “Instinct and the Unconscious,” British Journal of Psychology 10 (November 1919).
  12. Nietzsche, “Of the Despisers of the Body,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 63.
  13. Jacques Lacan, The Mirror-Stage as Formative of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience, translated by Alan Sheridan, Ecrits: A selection (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977).
  14. Ellen Levine, Tending the Fire: Studies in Art, Therapy & Creativity (Toronto: Palmerston Press, 1995), 72–74.
  15. Cameron Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone (July 26, 1979).
  16. Joni Mitchell’s description of her piece is contained in the coffee table book StarArt, edited by Deborah Chesher (Alberta: StarArt Productions Limited, 1979.)
  17. Quoted in Karen O’Brien, Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light (London: Virgin, 2001), 292.
  18. Jenny Boyd, Musicians in Tune: Seventy-Five Contemporary Musicians Discuss the Creative Process (New York: Fireside, 1992), 82.
  19. Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind, PBS American Masters documentary, 2003.
  20. Timothy White, “Joni Mitchell—A Portrait of an Artist,” Billboard, December 9, 1995.
  21. McDonald, “Joni Mitchell Emerges from her Retreat.”
  22. Alan Jackson, “Joni Mitchell,” New Musical Express (November 30, 1985).
  23. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  24. Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us (New York: Washington Square Press, 2008), 430.
  25. Kurt Loder, Rolling Stone interview transcript, November–December 1987 http://expectingrain.com/dok/int/rs1987.html.
  26. Stuart Henderson, “‘All Pink and Clean and Full of Wonder?’ Gendering ‘Joni Mitchell,’ 1966–74,” Left History (Fall 2005). https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/lh/article/viewFile/5682/4875.
  27. Brian Jewell, “John Kelly Brings Joni Mitchell to ‘Out on the Edge,’” Bay Windows (November 1, 2007).
  28. Matt Diehl, “It’s a Joni Mitchell Concert, Sans Joni,” Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2010.
  29. Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes, “The Imposter Phenomenon in High-Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention,” Psychotherapy Theory, Research and Practice 15, no. 3 (Fall 1978): 1. http://www.paulineroseclance.com/pdf/ip_high_achieving_women.pdf.
  30. Ibid, 3.
  31. Ibid.
  32. Ibid, 4.
  33. Ibid, 5.

Chapter Two Facing Down the Grim Reaper: Illness and Survival

  1. Charles Mingus, spoken remarks contained in the TV documentary Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog, directed by Don McGlynn, 1998. Text version can be found here: learn.bcbe.org/.../jazz%20unit%204%20part%202%20text.pdf?.
  2. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, VII, 336 http://www.rodneyohebsion.com/goethe.htm.
  3. Charles Mingus to Nat Henthoff, as quoted in The Nat Henthoff Reader, “Part 2: The Passion of Creation” (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2001), 99.
  4. Mary Dickie, “No Borders Here,” Impact (December 1994).
  5. Vic Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad,” Musician (January 1983).
  6. Echols, “Thirty Years with a Portable Lover.”
  7. Leonard Feather, “Joni Mitchell Has Her Mojo Working,” Los Angeles Times, June 10, 1979.
  8. John Rockwell, “The New Artistry of Joni Mitchell,” New York Times, August 19, 1979.
  9. Dickie, “No Borders Here.”
  10. Boyd, Musicians in Tune, 82.
  11. Ibid, 86.
  12. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad.”
  13. Feather, “Joni Mitchell Has Her Mojo Working.”
  14. Nietzsche, “Introduction,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 18.
  15. Feather, “Joni Mitchell Has Her Mojo Working.”
  16. Details, “Interview” (July 1996). As cited on jonimitchell.com.
  17. Feather, “Joni Mitchell Has Her Mojo Working.”
  18. Nietzsche, “The Intoxicated Song,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 331.
  19. Levine, Tending the Fire, 53.
  20. Woman of Heart and Mind outtakes.
  21. Giles Smith, “Joni Mitchell,” Independent, October 29, 1994.
  22. Jim Irvin, “Joni Mitchell,” Word (March 2005).
  23. Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2002), 45.
  24. Ibid, 188.
  25. Ibid, 47.
  26. Ibid, 46.
  27. Ibid, 96.
  28. Ibid, 254.
  29. Boyd, Musicians in Tune, 87.
  30. Carl G. Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, translated by R.F.C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).
  31. McDonough, Shakey, 339.
  32. Ibid, 96.
  33. Echols, “Thirty Years with a Portable Lover.”
  34. Joni Mitchell speaking on MuchMusic’s Intimate and Interactive, “The SpeakEasy Interview,” with Jana Lynne White, March 22, 2000, transcript at http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1388.
  35. Diehl, “It’s a Joni Mitchell Concert, Sans Joni.”
  36. Iain Blair, “Poetry and Paintbrushes,” Rock Express (May 1988).
  37. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad.”

Chapter Three Baby Bumps: Expecting and Expectation

  1. Levine, Tending the Fire, 61.
  2. D.W. Winnicott, “Transitional Objects,” (1951), quoted in Jan Abram, The Language of Winnicott (London: Karnac, 1996), 116.
  3. Oscar Brand’s introduction to Mitchell’s first performance on CBC’s Let’s Sing Out, October 1966.
  4. Weller, Girls Like Us, 243.
  5. William Rice, “Joni Mitchell Casts a Spell at Cellar Door,” Washington Post, November 27, 1968.
  6. Larry LeBlanc, “Joni Takes a Break,” Rolling Stone (March 4, 1971).
  7. Nagle, “... Ssshhhhhh... Listen, Listen to Joni.”
  8. Weller, Girls Like Us, 274.
  9. Michelle Mercer, Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period (New York: Free Press, 2009), 72.
  10. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  11. Echols, “Thirty Years with a Portable Lover.”
  12. Carla Hill, “The New Joni Mitchell,” Washington Post, August 25, 1979.
  13. Morrissey, “Melancholy Meets the Infinite Sadness,” Rolling Stone (March 6, 1997).
  14. Dickie, “No Borders Here.”
  15. Bill Higgins, “Both Sides at Last,” Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1997.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Ibid.
  18. Joni Mitchell to Mary Black, Both Sides Now, BBC2, February 20, 1999, transcribed by Lindsay Moon, produced and written by Roland Jaquarello for BBC2.
  19. Higgins, “Both Sides at Last.”
  20. Black, Both Sides Now.
  21. David Gardner, “Why Joni Mitchell Has to Find the Little She Gave Away,” Daily Mail, December 8, 1996.
  22. William Ruhlmann, “From Blue to Indigo,” Goldmine (February 17, 1995).
  23. John J. Miller, “The Superstar Mamas of Pop—Why They’re Singing the Blues,” Motion Picture (December 1975).
  24. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  25. Higgins, “Both Sides at Last.”
  26. Alexandra Gill, “Joni Mitchell in Person,” Globe and Mail, February 17, 2007.
  27. Higgins, “Both Sides at Last.”
  28. Reola Daniel, “Adoption—Both Sides Now,” Western Report (April 21, 1997).
  29. Laila Fulton, “Alberta Native Gave Up Daughter,” Calgary Sun, December 1996.
  30. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  31. David Wild, “Joni Mitchell,” Rolling Stone (October 31, 2002).
  32. Steve Matteo, “Woman of Heart and Mind,” Inside Connection (October 2000).
  33. Boyd, Musicians in Tune, 59.
  34. Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, “The Guitar Odyssey of Joni Mitchell: My Secret Place,” Acoustic Guitar (August 1996).
  35. O’Brien, Joni Mitchell, 44.
  36. Ruhlmann, “From Blue to Indigo.”
  37. Phil Sutcliffe, “Joni Mitchell,” Q (May 1988).
  38. Divina Infusino, “A Chalk Talk with Joni Mitchell,” San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3, 1988.
  39. James Bennighof, The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010), 10.
  40. Before the western scales were “tempered” during the Renaissance, musicians relied on Pythagorean tuning—which tuned in progressions of perfect fifths. The fifths worked fine, but there was always a snag around the major third. It didn’t sound right because it wasn’t “just” (the term used for pure intonation—in just intonation, the interval between two pitches corresponds to a whole-number ratio between frequencies). The solution was to change the fifth ever so slightly to bring the rest of the notes into tempered harmony. This altered fifth is called a diminished fifth, an augmented fourth, or a tritone—and the resulting diminished triad chord includes a minor third and a diminished fifth above the root. This was called “the devil’s interval,” because in the Middle Ages that’s what tritones were considered: too dissonant to be pure or good, they were labelled “diabolus in musica,” or what Georg Philipp Telemann called in 1733 “Satan in music.” The devil’s interval was stigmatized in Western culture until the Romantic movement, but it re-entered the musical vocabulary of the masses through jazz, which makes ample use of tertian harmonies—and was, as a result, branded the “devil’s music” by Southern holy rollers looking to stigmatize black music as evil and impure.
  41. Jim Bessman, “Mitchell Does Rare Live Show at New York Club,” Billboard (November 18, 1995).
  42. Joni Mitchell to Chris Douridas, “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” KCRW-FM broadcast transcribed by Lindsay Moon, March 27, 1998.
  43. Bennighof, The Words and Music of Joni Mitchell, 27.
  44. David Crosby interviewed by Wally Breese for jonimitchell.com, March 15, 1997.
  45. Sylvie Simmons, “A Long Strange Trip,” Mojo (November 2003).
  46. McDonough, Shakey, 245.
  47. In 1934, Crosby the elder had been invited to document the strange odyssey called the Bedaux Expedition. Financed by French millionaire Charles Bedaux, the odyssey had two ambitions: to make a feature film and to test the off-road capabilities of the specially designed Citroën half-track truck. The journey was supposed to go from Edmonton, Alberta, to Telegraph Creek, B.C., but the crew and the entourage of more than one hundred people turned back at Hudson’s Hope at the urging of the Canadian guide. Crosby’s footage was considered lost until it was found in a Paris basement more than seven decades later and became the basis for the 1995 documentary by George Ungar.
  48. Crosby to Breese, March 15, 1997.
  49. Quoted in O’Brien, Joni Mitchell, 73.
  50. Crosby to Breese, March 15, 1997.
  51. David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb, Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby (New York: Dell, 1988), 130.
  52. Quoted in O’Brien, Joni Mitchell, 75.
  53. Les Brown, “Joni Mitchell,” Rolling Stone (July 6, 1968).
  54. Robert Hilburn, “Both Sides Later,” Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1996.
  55. Timothy White, “Joni Mitchell Interview,” March 17, 1988. (For Rock Lives: Profiles and Interviews, New York: Holt Paperbacks, 1991.)
  56. Carla Hill, “The New Joni Mitchell,” Washington Post, August 25, 1979.
  57. Laura Campbell, “Joni Chic,” Sunday Telegraph, February 8, 1998.
  58. Edie Falco to the author at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in an interview about the film 3 Backyards. Unpublished material.
  59. Weller, Girls Like Us, 226.
  60. Dickie, “No Borders Here.”
  61. Ani DiFranco, “Ani DiFranco Chats with the Iconic Joni Mitchell,” Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1998.
  62. Steven Daly, “Rock and Roll,” Rolling Stone (October 29, 1998).

Chapter Four Woodstock: Myth and Mythmaking

  1. Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth (New York: Anchor, 1988), 2.
  2. Pete Fornatale, Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation (New York: Touchstone, 2009), 4.
  3. Ibid, 8.
  4. Ibid, 17.
  5. Details, “Interview.”
  6. Bill Flanagan, “Lady of the Canyon,” Vanity Fair (June 1997).
  7. Sutcliffe, “Joni Mitchell.”
  8. Interview for the Dick Cavett DVD collection.
  9. Dave Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2000), 111.
  10. Abraham Maslow, “The Creative Attitude,” Farther Reaches of Human Nature (New York: Viking, 1971). See also Jenny Boyd, Musicians in Tune, 158.
  11. Folksinger Jake Holmes claims he wrote “Dazed and Confused” two years before it appeared on Led Zeppelin’s debut album in 1969.
  12. Scene in the documentary Woodstock, directed by Mike Wadleigh, 1970.
  13. Walter Cronkite, quoted in Back to the Garden, xviii. “I Can Hear It Now/ The Sixties,” Columbia/Legacy, 1970.
  14. Margaret Mead, quoted in Back to the Garden, xix. “Woodstock in Retrospect,” Redbook (January 1970).
  15. Robert Hilburn, “The Mojo Interview,” Mojo (February 2008).

Chapter Five Business and Bullshit

  1. White, “The SpeakEasy Interview.”
  2. Buffy Sainte-Marie to the author in an interview about the documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life. Parts of this interview were published by Postmedia News (then Canwest), May 8, 2010.
  3. McDonough, Shakey, 244.
  4. Wild, “Joni Mitchell.”
  5. McDonough, Shakey, 244.
  6. Tom King, The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood (New York: Random House, 2000), 228.
  7. Ibid, xii.
  8. James Reginato, “The Diva’s Last Stand,” W (December 2002).
  9. Howie Klein, “2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient—Joni Mitchell,” Grammy (February 24, 2002).
  10. White, “The SpeakEasy Interview.”
  11. Malka Marom, “Self-Portrait of a Superstar,” Maclean’s (June 1974).
  12. Stephen Holden, “The Ambivalent Hall of Famer,” New York Times, December 1, 1996.
  13. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad.”
  14. LeBlanc, “Joni Takes a Break.”
  15. Penny Valentine, “Joni Mitchell Interview,” Sounds (June 3, 1972).
  16. White, “Joni Mitchell Interview.”
  17. Ibid.
  18. Ibid.
  19. Rolling Stone, “Joni Mitchell” (February 18, 1999).
  20. Reginato, “The Diva’s Last Stand.”
  21. Ethan Brown, “Influences: Joni Mitchell,” New York (May 9, 2005).
  22. White, “Joni Mitchell Interview.”
  23. Valentine, “Joni Mitchell Interview.”
  24. Christopher Guly, “Music World Courts and Sparks Joni Mitchell,” Globe and Mail, December 16, 1996.
  25. Joe Jackson, “If You See Her, Say Hello,” Hotpress (January 23, 1999).
  26. Ibid: “No doubt this sense of betrayal, which has led to Joni Mitchell undertaking less than 20 interviews during the past 31 years, goes back to those days when Rolling Stone described her as a rock ’n’ roll groupie—bed-mate of seemingly ever changing lovers such as Graham Nash. Now Joni’s back in New York and no, Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner is not on the list of invited guests.”
  27. Rolling Stone (February 4, 1971).
  28. McDonald, “Joni Mitchell Emerges from her Retreat.”
  29. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad.”
  30. Flanagan, “Lady of the Canyon.”
  31. Sybil McGuire, “Both Sides of Mitchell,” Progressive Quarterback (March 2000).
  32. Introduction to the song “Carey” for a performance at the Troubadour, as cited on the website http://crete.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/joni-michell-in-matala-crete.
  33. McGuire, “Both Sides of Mitchell.”
  34. Valentine, “Joni Mitchell Interview.”
  35. Bill Flanagan, “Joni Mitchell Has the Last Laugh,” Musician (December 1985).
  36. Ibid.
  37. Valentine, “Joni Mitchell Interview.”
  38. McDonald, “Joni Mitchell Emerges from her Retreat.”
  39. Joni Mitchell to Pete Fornatale, “Mixed Bag: Music and Interview with Pete Fornatale,” WNEW, January 12, 1986.
  40. White, “Joni Mitchell Interview.”
  41. Levine, Tending the Fire, 69.
  42. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad.”

Chapter Six Gods and Monsters

  1. Boyd, Musicians in Tune, 11.
  2. Paolo J. Knill, Helen N. Barba, and Margot N. Fuchs, Minstrels of the Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy (Toronto: Palmerston Press, 1995), 71.
  3. Hoskyns, “Our Lady of the Sorrows.”
  4. David Wild, “A Conversation with Joni Mitchell,” Rolling Stone (May 30, 1991).
  5. Brown, “Influences: Joni Mitchell.”
  6. Stewart Brand, “The Education of Joni Mitchell,” Co-Evolution Quarterly (June 1976).
  7. Mercer, Will You Take Me As I Am, 98.
  8. Weller, Girls Like Us, 236.
  9. The story of Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 is dramatized in the movie I’m Not There, by director Todd Haynes, which features a scene of an irate Pete Seeger trying to drive a hatchet blade through the main power cable. This is conjecture, but Seeger has said in recent years that he didn’t like the electric amplification because no one could properly hear Dylan’s beautiful poetry.
  10. Larry Sloman, On the Road with Bob Dylan (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1978), 271.
  11. Hilburn, “The Mojo Interview.”
  12. Susan Gordon Lydon, “Joni’s Trek from Canada to Laurel Canyon,” Globe and Mail, April 29, 1969.
  13. Mercer, Will You Take Me As I Am, 104.
  14. Brand, “The Education of Joni Mitchell.”
  15. Sloman, On the Road with Bob Dylan, 360–83.
  16. Ibid, 439–40.
  17. Ibid, 383.
  18. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  19. Mercer, Will You Take Me As I Am, 33.
  20. Will Elliott, “Painting with Words and Music,” Poetry (June 2000).
  21. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad.”
  22. Sloman, On the Road with Bob Dylan, 439.
  23. Ibid, 375.
  24. Ibid, 379.
  25. Ibid, 437.
  26. Ibid, 436.
  27. Ibid, 438.
  28. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  29. Mary Aikins, “Heart of a Prairie Girl,” Reader’s Digest (July 2005).
  30. Mercer, Will You Take Me As I Am, 191–94.
  31. Levon Helm, “Do It, Puke and Get Out,” Independent, April 10, 1994.
  32. Hoskyns, “Our Lady of the Sorrows.”
  33. Jody Denberg, “Taming Joni Mitchell—Joni’s Jazz,” Austin Chronicle, October 12, 1998.
  34. Edna Gundersen, “The Cat’s ‘Meow-meow-meow!’” USA Today, September 29, 1988.
  35. Rene Ingle, “Interview of Joni Mitchell,” KCSN, December 21, 1999.
  36. Elvis Costello, “Joni’s Last Waltz?” Vanity Fair (November 2004).
  37. Ingle, “Interview of Joni Mitchell.”
  38. Nietzsche, “Retired from Service,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 275.
  39. Nietzsche, “Of the Afterworldsmen,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 60.
  40. Nietzsche wanted to replace the dragon of “Thou Shalt” with the “I Will” of human triumph, and therein lies the other major problem with Nietzsche: the Nazis adopted great swaths of his philosophy to sell an agenda of hate—something that (I believe) Nietzsche would have loathed and done his best to prevent by teaching a doctrine that refuses any notion of an all-powerful leader. In “Of the Higher Man” in Zarathustra, he talks about the “parasites” who build “a loathsome nest in your grief and dejection” and “the evil falsity of those who will beyond their powers... these fabricators and actors... who are at last untrue to themselves, squint-eyed, white-washed rottenness, cloaked with clever words, with pretended virtues, with glittering, false deeds. Guard yourselves well against that.” Those who want further reading on both sides should check out Walter Kaufmann’s Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist and Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy.
  41. Denberg, “Taming Joni Mitchell—Joni’s Jazz.”
  42. Nietzsche, “Of the Chairs of Virtue,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 58.
  43. Black, Both Sides Now.
  44. Although I can’t document the connection, I think this has to be John Landy, one of the first runners to break a four-minute mile and one of two runners memorialized in my hometown of Vancouver, in a bronze statue that shows him and Roger Bannister in the so-called race of the century during the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
  45. Nietzsche, “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 67.
  46. Weller, Girls Like Us, 296.
  47. Flanagan, “Joni Mitchell has the Last Laugh.”
  48. Ibid.
  49. Nietzsche, “Prologue 2,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 40.
  50. Nietzsche, “Prologue 5,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 47.
  51. Nietzsche, “Prologue 6,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 48.
  52. Ibid.
  53. Nietzsche, “Prologue 9,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 52.
  54. Nietzsche, “Part Two: The Child With the Mirror,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 107.
  55. Ibid.
  56. Costello, “Joni’s Last Waltz?”
  57. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (New York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1995), 64.
  58. John Mackie, full transcript of Joni Mitchell interview for the Vancouver Sun, January 15, 2010.
  59. Nietzsche, “The Convalescent,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 234
  60. Nietzsche, “Of War and Warriors,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 75–76.
  61. Denberg, “Taming Joni Mitchell—Joni’s Jazz.”
  62. Nietzsche, “Of the Chairs of Virtue,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 57.
  63. In his essay “What Rough Beast? Yeats, Nietzsche and Historical Rhetoric in ‘The Second Coming’” (from highbeam.com), scholar John R. Harrison explores the details of Yeats’s relationship and exposure to Nietzschean texts: Yeats’s interest in Nietzsche was aroused at least as early as September 1902, when his American lawyer friend, John Quinn, sent him his own copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra together with copies of The Case of Wagner and A Genealogy of Morals. The first mention in Yeats’s letters is dated by Wade 26 September 1902. He wrote to Lady Gregory: “You have a rival in Nietzsche, that strong enchanter . . . Nietzsche completes Blake and has the same roots—I have not read anything with so much excitement since I got to love Morris’s stories which have the same curious astringent joy” (Letters 379). It was shortly after this, and not I believe coincidentally, that he began to reconstruct his poetic style to give it more “masculinity,” more “salt,” and to make it more idiomatic. Yeats also annotated John Quinn’s copy of Thomas Common’s Nietzsche as Critic, Philosopher, Poet and Prophet, which appeared in 1901. Most of his annotations are on passages from A Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spake Zarathustra. According to Professor Donald Torchiana Yeats’s library contained at least the following texts (the dates of English translations are given in brackets): The Case of Wagner (1895), A Genealogy of Morals (1899), The Dawn of Day (1903), The Birth of Tragedy (1909), Thoughts out of Season (1909), and The Will to Power (1909–10).
  64. Daniel Levitin, “A Conversation with Joni Mitchell,” Grammy (March 1997).
  65. Mercer, Will You Take Me As I Am, 62.
  66. Ibid, 42.
  67. Hilburn, “The Mojo Interview.”
  68. Mercer, Will You Take Me As I Am, 27–32.
  69. Nietzsche, “Prologue,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 42–43.
  70. Nietzsche, “Of the Priests,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 114–17.
  71. Nietzsche, “The Sorcerer,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 264–70.
  72. Hoskyns, “Our Lady of the Sorrows.”
  73. Nietzsche, “Of Poets,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 151.
  74. Flanagan, “Joni Mitchell Has the Last Laugh.”
  75. Tim Murphy, “Joni Mitchell Gets Angry, Hugs it Out,” New York (September 26, 2007).
  76. Nietzsche, “Of the Old and New Law Tables,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 218.

Chapter Seven Love: The Big Production

  1. Morrissey, “Melancholy Meets the Infinite Sadness.”
  2. Weller, Girls Like Us, 415.
  3. Hilburn, “Both Sides Later.”
  4. Breese, “A Conversation with David Crosby.”
  5. Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone, 130.
  6. Boyd, Musicians in Tune, 139.
  7. Weller, Girls Like Us, 277–78.
  8. Susan Gordon Lydon, “In Her House, Love,” New York Times, April 20, 1969.
  9. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  10. Helen Brown, “Jackson Browne: Legendary Californian Singer-Songwriter,” Independent, December 14, 2005.
  11. Steve Pond, “Wild Things Run Fast,” Rolling Stone (November 25, 1982).
  12. Malka, “Self-Portrait of a Superstar.”
  13. Dickie, “No Borders Here.”
  14. Weller, Girls Like Us, 413.
  15. Sloman, On the Road with Bob Dylan, 384.
  16. Robert Hilburn, “Out of the Canyon,” Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1991.
  17. Weller, Girls Like Us, 435.
  18. Wild, “A Conversation with Joni Mitchell.”
  19. Bill Flanagan, “Secret Places,” Musician (May 1988).
  20. Larry LeBlanc, “Industry Profile: Larry Klein,” celebrityaccess.com, March 2012.
  21. Weller, Girls Like Us, 438.
  22. Pond, “Wild Things Run Fast.”
  23. Iain Blair, “Joni Mitchell,” Chicago Tribune, December 1, 1985.
  24. Ibid.
  25. Ibid.
  26. Infusino, “A Chalk Talk with Joni Mitchell.”
  27. Hilburn, “Out of the Canyon.”
  28. Costello, “Joni’s Last Waltz?”
  29. Geoffrey Himes, “Music and Lyrics,” JazzTimes (December 2007).
  30. Ibid.
  31. Hoskyns, “Our Lady of the Sorrows.”
  32. Himes, “Music and Lyrics.”
  33. Ingle, “Interview of Joni Mitchell.”
  34. Ibid.
  35. Diehl, “It’s a Joni Mitchell Concert, Sans Joni.”
  36. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad.”
  37. Robert Hilburn, “No Longer Speaking for the Rest of Us, Joni Mitchell Got Herself Back to the Garden,” Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2004.

Chapter Eight I’m Okay, You’re O’Keeffe

  1. Liane Hansen, “Music Icon Joni Mitchell Discusses Her Music,” NPR Weekend Edition, May 28, 1995.
  2. Charles Gandee, “Triumph of the Will,” Vogue (April 1995).
  3. O’Brien, Joni Mitchell, 284.
  4. Benjamin Weissman, “Amy Adler Curates Joni Mitchell,” Frieze (March 3, 2000).
  5. This is from the author’s scrum with Mitchell at the Grammys, February 28, 1996.
  6. Camille Paglia, “The Trailblazer Interview,” Interview (August 2005).
  7. Ingle, “Interview of Joni Mitchell.”
  8. Paglia, “The Trailblazer Interview.”
  9. Brand, “The Education of Joni Mitchell.”
  10. Charlie Rose, The Charlie Rose Show, PBS, November 15, 2007.
  11. Brand, “The Education of Joni Mitchell.”
  12. Quoted in O’Brien, Joni Mitchell, 300.
  13. Quoted in Clifford Chase, “Trouble Child (Joni Mitchell and the History of My Sadness),” jonimitchell.com, June 17, 1996.
  14. Quoted in O’Brien, Joni Mitchell, 302.
  15. Hansen, “Music Icon Joni Mitchell Discusses Her Music.”
  16. Quoted in O’Brien, Joni Mitchell, 301.
  17. Aikins, “Heart of a Prairie Girl.”
  18. Irvin, “Joni Mitchell.”
  19. Gill, “Joni Mitchell in Person.”
  20. Ibid.
  21. Ingle, “Interview of Joni Mitchell.”
  22. Ibid.
  23. Brand, “The Education of Joni Mitchell.”
  24. Ingle, “Interview of Joni Mitchell.”
  25. Ibid.
  26. Wild, “A Conversation with Joni Mitchell.”

Chapter Nine Sing Shine Dance

  1. Joe Levy on The Today Show, February 11, 2008, http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/23110632#23110632.
  2. Greg Burk, “He’s Still Full of Surprises,” Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2008.
  3. Brown, “Influences: Joni Mitchell,” and http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/video/herbie-hancock-at-the-2008-grammy-awards-press-room-at-news-footage/80159632.
  4. Siddhartha Mitter, “To Pay Tribute to an Old friend, Hancock Adopts a New Approach,” Boston Globe, September 23, 2007.
  5. Himes, “Music and Lyrics.”
  6. Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, 135.
  7. Wild, “A Conversation with Joni Mitchell.”
  8. Ruhlmann, “From Blue to Indigo.”
  9. Hilton Als, “Birthday Suite,” New Yorker (December 11, 1995).
  10. Costello, “Joni’s Last Waltz?”
  11. Mark Miller, “Mitchell’s Jazz Plaintively Mimes Arc of Modern Love,” Globe and Mail, March 30, 2000.
  12. Paul Ennis, “So Joni Misses a Note—So Who Cares?” Toronto Telegram, November 9, 1966.
  13. Joni Mitchell to Pete Fornatale, “Mixed Bag: Music and Interview with Pete Fornatale,” WNEW, January 12, 1996.
  14. Denberg, “Taming Joni Mitchell—Joni’s Jazz.”
  15. Lydon, “Joni’s Trek from Canada to Laurel Canyon.”
  16. Brown, “Influences: Joni Mitchell.”
  17. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  18. Sloman, On the Road with Bob Dylan, 440.
  19. Flanagan, “Secret Places.”
  20. Ibid.
  21. Levitin, “A Conversation with Joni Mitchell.”
  22. Smith, “Joni Mitchell.”
  23. LeBlanc, “Joni Takes a Break.”
  24. Himes, “Music and Lyrics.”
  25. Charlie Rose, The Charlie Rose Show.
  26. Notes on the packaging of Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the Drum, DVD, Koch, 2007. Mitchell talks about her enjoyment in creating the piece on the extras with co-creator and Alberta Ballet artistic director Jean Grand-Maître.
  27. Emma Goldman, Living My Life, Volumes One and Two (New York: Knopf, 1934), 56. The actual quote is much longer: “I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.”
  28. Author interview with Wim Wenders, Toronto International Film Festival, September 2011, for Pina. Published by Postmedia News, February 15, 2012.
  29. Hoskyns, “Our Lady of the Sorrows.”
  30. Stephen Holden, “High Spirits Buoy a Joni Mitchell Album,” New York Times, November 7, 1982.
  31. Barney Hoskyns, “Joni Mitchell in Conversation with Barney Hoskyns,” tape transcript of interview, September 14, 1994. Unpublished. http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2143&from=search
  32. Lynne Shuttleworth, “Joni Gets a Little Help From Her Friends,” Smash (April 1, 1988).
  33. Valentine, “Joni Mitchell Interview.”
  34. Crowe, “The Rolling Stone Interview.”
  35. John Mackie, “Full Transcript of Joni Mitchell’s Interview with The Sun’s John Mackie,” January 15, 2010, http://jonimitchell.com/library/ view.cfm?id=2203&from=search.
  36. Nietzsche, “On the Blissful Islands,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 111.
  37. Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, 4.
  38. Nietzsche, “Prologue 5,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 46.

Afterword

  1. Nietzsche, “Prologue 7,” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 49.