The World Is A Heartbreaking

I'm Very Intrigued That In This Culture Of Reality Television And Celebrity - Which Is An Enormous Industry And Generates Billions And Billions Of Dollars - We're So Resourceful.

I Was Brought Up In A Tenement House In A Working District. We Didn't Even Have A Bathroom! We Had A Gaslight In The Hallway And A Black-and-white Tv.

You Wouldn't Find A Joni Mitchell On 'x Factor;' That's Not The Place. 'x Factor' Is A Specific Thing For People That Want To Go Through That Process - It's A Factory, You Know, And It's Owned And Stitched-up By Puppet Masters.

Life Is Not Quantifiable In Terms Of Age, But I Suppose In My Fifties I Am More Grounded And More At Ease In My Own Skin Than When I Was Younger. I Have A Confidence That I Didn't Have Before From The Experiences I've Had.

There Needs To Be A Shift In Consciousness; There Needs To Be An Absolute Wake-up Call Before Society Can Actually Make The Kind Of Incredibly Significant Changes That Need To Happen.