Day with Joni Mitchell
(journal entry)

So I went for a long walk in Strawberry Canyon today listening to Joni - a day with Joni - I am figuring out how she writes such excellent songs, but I'm worried the more I figure out, the less of my own sound I'll have -- But one thing is, I know my lyrical content will be entirely different - where she's kind of school- momish, and yet playful, but countrified-simple, I am more complex, I think, philosophical, how can I explain it? Where she's a cat, I'm a platypus, while she's beige with green specks, I'm purple and red, more loud, less sensible, crazier, firey- perky, sexy, in a way more like that of the short dark-haired girl in sex, lies, and videotape than like Meryl Streep.