One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
My fame came from my success as a country music singer.
Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.
We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.
I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I'm innocent!
I love my mother. I do love her.
I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.
We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.