These comments are more interesting than the interview. If she wants to smoke, what difference is it to anyone else? Joni DES not think like the normal humanoid. To most of the world, she isa whack job and a whore. But I understand her completely.
it depends on the person....you can't say that all smokers will die of cancer caused by smoking, just like you can't say that non-smokers won't die of cancer. As she mentioned in her interview, she is a nervous type, and excuses her smoking as a need for her system.
we could go and say negative things about anyone ,,get a grip ,,she is a amazing person ,,the pope ,Einstein whoever had faults ,,but don't bag on about smoking ,,that is small thinking,,you must be a reform or small thinking
For those who are so inclined, read Joe Jackson's opinion piece on smoking. Another favourite musician of mine, and a brilliant man. When you have an extremely talented person in front of you, to admonish them on smoking is ridiculous. When interviewing somebody who is gifted, I don't give a rat's ass about what the interviewer thinks about anything, especially not smoking. Imagine asking Einstein or Shakespeare or Beethoven about their vices. Yeesh.
She managed to say 'my ora sticks out further than normal' with a totally straight face. Too easy, maybe. The woman is certainly controlled. I don't personally care that she smokes, tho I can't stand it myself. We can comfortable rate her on her musical contribution, which is vast.
@YouriCarma Good point. In fact, Steve Jobs, due to his ideology, delayed treatment for quite some time. Had he not avoided traditional treatment it is highly likely that he'd still be alive today (though for how much longer, it's impossible to say).
dont get me wrong, im as old as she is, this old bitch is still cool, i somewhat liked her music in the day, it was my x wifes favorite , but how in the day for a man not to like the doors a little better,i havent seen my x in 20 years, i bet she holds up well, like this lady, god bless
I personally dislike women who smoke in general....not feminine, not pretty, not sexy and I would not want to date a woman who smokes...unladylike for sure. Not that smoking is a masculine thing, but seems more of a guy thing for me...at the risk of sounding sexist. Also, she calls it a "grounding herb" which is total BS when the herb is loaded with cancer causing agents, carcinogens, chemicals and other crap. Sorry Joni, marijuana is a much healthier choice than cigarettes or grounding herb.
no matter of negative or positive comments of Joni ,she has wrote great rock and jazz songs before her own critics were even born .She garnerd awardes and great respect from her peers and rollingstone magazine with the order of Canada .
I 'mentally pick up' people 33-60 feet away with the same facility she speaks of, but since not watching TV or hanging out in crowds, I do now hang out on You Tube and read the comments... here the pure unbridled ugliness, the selfish small minded stupidity, the ignorant idiotic fascism... has hardened me up a bit, sort of like Joni's cigarettes... so I get it.
@doceigen - I gather you're talking about yourself? Joni seems to do this to. Something of a generational thing, I suppose. The 60's are over for SOME people but others seem to still be there. Maybe what we're talking about here is not so much a "facility" but a kind of vanity. Born out of drugs and booze, half the people you used to "pick up on" were probably wondering what the hell you were staring at. While I agree most Americans are dumb as dirt, you don't seem to be heading up a revolution.
@thegrinchl7 Head up a 'revolution'? If you were half as smart as you think you are, you'd notice I said I do not watch TV or hang out in crowds, so... where is this 'revolution'? And yes, I was talking about myself, WHY?!... are you a representative of the mainstream cynical no dreams left collective, who thinks they have a clue as to 'how things actually work'? You people are but dreamless proxies, who tout nothing but the bland party line of pre-morbidity cyber failures... big deal.
@thegrinchl7 Joni Mitchell she was a big lesson not learned. She sang about what she saw and was serious and precise about her descriptions. That commercial hit, big yellow taxi, was understood by all, and yet that concept never entered the mind of most people before she wrote it. Visionary artist and touched by God.
Thankyou for sharing this video. Same for me (I call them journeys), very thankful to find this interview! I haven't tried hard drugs but wonder if some of the aspects are similar? And thank you Joni for the music, a beautiful jewel from Saskatchewan!!
I have ALWAYS loved Joni and nothing She says here will in any way diminish her talent, BUT, ... man ... the sixties were sure good to her, as She still seems to be stuck there. Aura?? Antenna?? Gap to her subconscious ??? screw the smoking issue, that's the LEAST of it.
Well, it is a shame that they spend so much time talking about "herbs" and smoking. More time should be spent discussing the two great albums "Court & Spark" and "Blue"....period.
@vegasnites777 Tavis didn't spend so much time talking about it; Joni did. I love Joni, and think she's one of the great geniuses ever, but it's almost funny to hear her rationalizing her smoking addiction.
@adorejunk Oh I know a lot of non smokers who are so sick because they eat crap fast food etc. America is fat but its ok to stuff your face and raise health costs and there skin looks all blotchy but if you smoke your evil. Ha Ha This country is anal and trained and boring. Give me bettie Davis or Joan Mitchelll smoking than some fast food boring non smoker.
@ghoula69 I agree totally with you, that is why I am a vegan who eats raw. Jodi admits to smokes since she was 9, but as singer that is insane. When your angelic voice is your career, why risk hurting it with smoking? Jodi has Morgellon's syndrome and says she has had it for the last 20 years. I would say that smoking has to contribute to any disease and most certainly this one.
She got older for sure...is still awesome, and a true artist indeed. She touched me in a way few artists do..with her songs about men, life...I love Joni.
"I once had a thief brush by me and go, "Thief". She once said that everyone in her life stole from her. I think her wallet "sticks out further than normal", not her "aura". And tobacco is a "grounding herb"? If this was your average, anonymous, smoker, I wonder if Mr. Smiley would have been as indulgent. Also, the issue is cigarette smoking which is a dirty, noxious, fetid habit - a prison, the opposite of sex and romance, (her recurring themes) and she knows it. She thinks we're stupid.
@IAWAF Calm down,..It's ok; You wouldn't understand..... don't think she's 'taking' anything, but she is talking quite a bit. ... and she talks about you in the CharlieRose interview; go see it.
What an ass - asking about her smoking. it's a f'n disease - not the smoking, but the self-righteous, conformist, groupthink that has taken over the world. We are no longer allowed to be individuals. Political correctness, suppression of individuality, etc. One giant monolithic, corporate ideology. What a shame.
what bullshit u are...how about the secondary smoke as she puffs it into her friends faces....and when the doc tells her that persistent cough she has.."well we'll have to do a lung x-ray"...and when he shows a huge neoplasm....
well...shes right ...tobacco is a grounding herb...it will put u in the ground
travis asked a legit question...not to be mean...but how does a brilliant woman would out cancer sticks in her mouth daily for decades?
@ChiroQuacker I can forgive the stupidity, but not the rudeness. I wonder why it is that people like you can't handle opposing viewpoints? Also, your post is borderline (pardon the pun) incoherent. Smoking is a personal choice and it's nobody's business. It's as inappropriate as asking her about oral sex. 2nd hand smoke is nonsense (unless you work in a bar or place where you are constantly breathing in smoke), used by puritanical finger-waggers to get their way.
joni does most of her smoking at home...no in bars...at her home she has pets..the beloved pets reek from smoke and are inhaling it 24/7,,.THATS CALLED ANIMAL CRUELTY
and what about concern for her friends and family...oh yeah thats right she dont have a family...no spouse...no children or grandchildren are in her life..especially after she slapped her long lost daughter in the face...daughter called LAPD filed report...FACT
I appreciate your comments, but we have differing opinions. She has a known brain disorder, which talks about herself. Tangential thought processes are typical for this disorder. I'm not dissing her or criticizing her, I wish it weren't so, but it just is. Hauser43 kind of hit on the point in maybe a more street sense way. Whatever. She's still a very talented person.
@dogcrazy, I think as DAHKSYDE, the problem is not smokers, its tyrants that want people to die if they don't do what they want them to. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, they didn't let you do anything unless they authorized it, we are heading down the same road. Schools are the same way, kids can have sex, abortions, cheat and stuff, but don't smoke that is worse than any else. Sounds like you need a brain cleaning and I don't mean washing, you've already had that.
It's good to hear this fine lady speaking favourably about smoking. Here in the UK smokers have become the new lepers. If you smoke here your looked down upon and forced to leave the room or stand in the street. And this by one of the most degerate, generations this country has ever produced. Our youth are alcoholics and drug abusers par excellence. And this is accepted a normal. Yet smoking is fround upon. What a f----d up place this country is.
Do you really think Joni smokes those chemical-laden death sticks one finds at the corner store? Tobacco is not what causes cancer, all the other crap that goes into the average cigarette is the culprit.
@amandaberesford The amount of by-product in a cigarette is infintesimally small. Although, I agree I do not want things like asbestos, cyanide, etc. in any amount -- I don't care how tiny. But let's face it, the chemical by-product hit from cigarettes isn't the only danger. When you burn anything - even an organic weed like tobacco or pot -- you're still inhaling a burnt product which produces carbon poisoning in the lungs and bloodstream and eventually heart failure, organ faliure or cancer.
she started at 9...she's now 66 (almost 67)...this music genius seems fine...my mother-in-law's 81, a staunch smoker since her teens...and is in fine health...to each his/her own
bottom line, we live our own lives and we're ALL GOING TO DIE...no one's immune to that
A true tired old bag who has one of the more unique rationales for her cigareete smoking. Geez what a wingnut! It's called nicotine addiction...save that Morphine drip for when the lung cancer metastasizes to the bone (at least it will not effect her mentation. She's nuts already) As for cancer this isn't an 'if' it is a 'when' unless heart disease hits 1st.
Like Joni, I had my first puff of a cigarette at a very early age. I think I was 8. I'm 10 years younger than her, but recently I had a heart attack. While I had a few bad eating habits, I attribute my problems to heavy smoking, since there is little genetic history of heart disease in my family. I loved smoking, Now I am 46 days cold turkey and rehabbing nicely. I'd light up with Joni in a second, but however she rationalizes the "benefits" of smoking is just that: rationalization.
That's ok. It's just an observation about a person with a seemingly very good heart. As I said, I hope it was temporary, but it's not functional to speak or think in that way. I understand it appears maybe simply unusual or peculiar, unless you see it from a diagnostic perspective. It's like a person having a fever, it's just a symptom of something underlying, maybe very brief.
It would be easy to think she is simply eccentric, or lost. But this is disordered thought from either a cognitive or psychological impairment. She is speaking in a fragmented, tangential process, with bizarre and deluded content. This is hopefully temporary, possibly a result of several neurological disorders in her history. It's there to a lesser degree in other interviews. A brilliant mind.
Okay... I was a little sarcastic there. Please dont take it personally, as it was not meant to offend. I just dont like this view of the world that everybody has a disorder and should be on Ritalin, or something like that. People are different, and they're SUPPOSED to be that way. Its not a disorder.
@walnutstreet1 It sounds as though you didn't understand what Joni was saying. She was quoting others and her body language revealed her doubts as to what some of them said, while taking in what she deemed useful. Not disordered, impaired or tangential at all.
I appreciate your comments, but we have differing opinions. She has a known brain disorder, which talks about herself. Tangential thought processes are typical for this disorder. I'm not dissing her or criticizing her, I wish it weren't so, but it just is. Hauser43 kind of hit on the point in maybe a more street sense way. Whatever. She's still a very talented person.
I'm not a smoker but Joni is so good at it that she makes it seem so pure and natural. Mind you, she likes cigarettes that are almost pure tobacco, not filled with the kind of carniogenic toxins in manufactured ones. Smoking pure tobacco will still damage you in ways but maybe its relative natural quality is why Joni seems to carry on without significant problems though I'm sure cancer will get her in the end. But she's 66- too old to stop now!
Listen, She's so intelligent it's scary ..she is the Virgina Woolf of Music...to be THAT gifted/ talented ... to those of us less intelligent...we can't understand the Genius ....some people just don't get it...and I don't think Joni is trippin' about what people think...xo
I was wowed by her music when I 1st heard it in '73, but I never saw her interviewed 'till today. The gal is a whack job! LOL...strait out of the 60's! But thats cool.
Seen this lady as a 17yr old....fell in love with her voice,then her music...and the romance has lasted 37yrs! Genius is a word that is overused....in Joni's case it is inadequate!
I wish she didn't smoke, but she does. More importantly, she is a true artist and many true artists have sensitivities that require something to deal with them. Joni, like John Lennon is one of the more important songwriters of not only our time, but of all time. Also like John Lennon, Joni is an open book, has a world view and picks up things that you or I wouldn't. So of course she lives life differently than you or I.
"Don't criticize what you can't understand." (Bob Dylan)
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knock off the shit joni..smoking kills u and those around you..admit it..plus it aged the shit out of u..sure your an old bag now but u should look a bit better and the smoking ages your face plus the nutty thoughts....joni slapped the shit out of her daughter and the cops came to her home..a real mess
This lady is a true artist. She has written so many great songs and paints and some of you are so pathetic that all you talk about is that she smokes. Jesus martha you people are so fucking lame.
@ghoula69 typical fundamentalists who believe they'll be judged on something as pathetic as cussing even...usually, they can't the the wood for the trees in real live...they are prominently living in isolation...oh yeah, like hermits, with nothing better to do.
@ghoula69 The thing is, this clip is from an interview in which she talks about smoking. You want to talk about her great songs and her painting? Great! Post a clip where she is interviewed about her great songs or her painting, and go for it!
@ghoula69 Agreed. One of the true music legends of all time, yet all they can comment on is some trivial, petty shit about her smoking. They have no idea what a consummate genius she is (and always has been)
she's way cool and she smokes......some comments here are truly meanspirited and have no bearing on her beliefs which she is nice enough to share. This is not a syposium on smoking its just a glimpse at an artist and her world.
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and she's full of shit too. why are so many well known industry stalwarts so occult minded? all that shit about antennae. people like mitchell have had their ego's so inflated over the years that they develop personal mystical theories that validate their talent. humans are so self centered. why no just say, yea...i love music..and i love playing with kick ass drummers too!!
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let the withered hag smoke....do you really care if she does or doesn't?....wild things must be still running fast baby!!.....Vinnie rocks....and he's a Jesus freak...what is more abhorrent? religion or smoking?
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ps Joni, Your not out of the woods of harsh smoking effects yet. Another icon ,Bette Davis, paid the price in her 70's with strokes and cancer ravaging those last years.
Yeah and most people if not smoking are stuffing their faces with meat and sweats and trans fats. I know so many people who don't smoke who are fat and sick. Can't you just appreciate her music? She smoking near you
smoking,just as drinking,isn't the problem. Genetics is the problem. Some people smoke and drink their entire lives and never get bad effects, others can't. It's genetics. But you can't tell that to a nanny state that lumps everyone together. So much for freedom.
sheburns12: it's called freedom. Until political correctness people were free to decide for themselves how they would live. Being free means being free to do stupid things. Abe Lincoln said "my freedom stops where your nose begins."
...that's great, but you still posted claims that were completely factually incorrect. I don't even know why you just posted this, nothing I said debated freedom. Claiming that "genetics" is the problem is biologically and scientifically incorrect and if you had done any research instead of listening to someone who is speaking solely out of personal experience then you would know that as well.
There's nothing much else to say. What you just said has nothing to do with anything.
I personally know people in their 70's and 80's who smoke like a chimney and are in perfect health for their age.Smoking in itself does not guarantee health problems.
So you honestly believe that because of your tiny diagnostic, it goes to represent that everyone in the world functions in the same manner? That it's either bad health problems or it's not?
Unless you have done x-rays and ultrasounds on them yourself, you have absolutely no say in whether or not those people have health problems.
And FYI, the degeneration of Joni's voice nowadays is due to her smoking since she was 9 years old. Genetics can make health problems vary but not disappear.
These comments are more interesting than the interview. If she wants to smoke, what difference is it to anyone else? Joni DES not think like the normal humanoid. To most of the world, she isa whack job and a whore. But I understand her completely.
ghanick 3 days ago
HOLY CRAP!!! That was pretty deep and for some strange reason I actually understood exactly what she was talking about and where she was coming from.
Rtfune 1 week ago
it depends on the person....you can't say that all smokers will die of cancer caused by smoking, just like you can't say that non-smokers won't die of cancer. As she mentioned in her interview, she is a nervous type, and excuses her smoking as a need for her system.
ildiko1pa 1 week ago
Autism - one in 47. There is something biological going on there. Bad injections.
ctweebee 1 month ago
i need to smoke myself,and i smoke everything
DrewAnti1960 1 month ago
we could go and say negative things about anyone ,,get a grip ,,she is a amazing person ,,the pope ,Einstein whoever had faults ,,but don't bag on about smoking ,,that is small thinking,,you must be a reform or small thinking
vaughnsalem 1 month ago
For those who are so inclined, read Joe Jackson's opinion piece on smoking. Another favourite musician of mine, and a brilliant man. When you have an extremely talented person in front of you, to admonish them on smoking is ridiculous. When interviewing somebody who is gifted, I don't give a rat's ass about what the interviewer thinks about anything, especially not smoking. Imagine asking Einstein or Shakespeare or Beethoven about their vices. Yeesh.
slickvguy 1 month ago
She managed to say 'my ora sticks out further than normal' with a totally straight face. Too easy, maybe. The woman is certainly controlled. I don't personally care that she smokes, tho I can't stand it myself. We can comfortable rate her on her musical contribution, which is vast.
Pihasanddunes1 1 month ago
Joni Mitchell smoked since she was nine years ol.
Steve Jobs only ate fruit.Look were that got him.
YouriCarma 2 months ago 7
@YouriCarma Good point. In fact, Steve Jobs, due to his ideology, delayed treatment for quite some time. Had he not avoided traditional treatment it is highly likely that he'd still be alive today (though for how much longer, it's impossible to say).
slickvguy 1 month ago
@YouriCarma ? You're trying to make consistent a disease that's not.
Catlovertea4 3 weeks ago
Is there any more?
msbookhog 2 months ago
dont get me wrong, im as old as she is, this old bitch is still cool, i somewhat liked her music in the day, it was my x wifes favorite , but how in the day for a man not to like the doors a little better,i havent seen my x in 20 years, i bet she holds up well, like this lady, god bless
ziggyuno1 3 months ago
I personally dislike women who smoke in general....not feminine, not pretty, not sexy and I would not want to date a woman who smokes...unladylike for sure. Not that smoking is a masculine thing, but seems more of a guy thing for me...at the risk of sounding sexist. Also, she calls it a "grounding herb" which is total BS when the herb is loaded with cancer causing agents, carcinogens, chemicals and other crap. Sorry Joni, marijuana is a much healthier choice than cigarettes or grounding herb.
amazingenoughful 3 months ago
@amazingenoughful
chicks who smoke..i let them toke on my tool but i wrefuse to kiss them..especially after i loose a quart in their mouth
ChiroQuacker 1 month ago
@ChiroQuacker Women give bad head' gay men do it best. They taught me
but like most women, I really don't like it.
MyBetty111 3 weeks ago
So much love, so much hate.
MonacoBlast 3 months ago
no matter of negative or positive comments of Joni ,she has wrote great rock and jazz songs before her own critics were even born .She garnerd awardes and great respect from her peers and rollingstone magazine with the order of Canada .
vaughnsalem 3 months ago
I 'mentally pick up' people 33-60 feet away with the same facility she speaks of, but since not watching TV or hanging out in crowds, I do now hang out on You Tube and read the comments... here the pure unbridled ugliness, the selfish small minded stupidity, the ignorant idiotic fascism... has hardened me up a bit, sort of like Joni's cigarettes... so I get it.
doceigen 4 months ago
@doceigen
Very interesting to read what you wrote about "picking up people".Your other comments are very true.
winterlandboy 4 months ago
@doceigen - I gather you're talking about yourself? Joni seems to do this to. Something of a generational thing, I suppose. The 60's are over for SOME people but others seem to still be there. Maybe what we're talking about here is not so much a "facility" but a kind of vanity. Born out of drugs and booze, half the people you used to "pick up on" were probably wondering what the hell you were staring at. While I agree most Americans are dumb as dirt, you don't seem to be heading up a revolution.
thegrinchl7 4 months ago
@thegrinchl7 Head up a 'revolution'? If you were half as smart as you think you are, you'd notice I said I do not watch TV or hang out in crowds, so... where is this 'revolution'? And yes, I was talking about myself, WHY?!... are you a representative of the mainstream cynical no dreams left collective, who thinks they have a clue as to 'how things actually work'? You people are but dreamless proxies, who tout nothing but the bland party line of pre-morbidity cyber failures... big deal.
doceigen 4 months ago
@thegrinchl7 Joni Mitchell she was a big lesson not learned. She sang about what she saw and was serious and precise about her descriptions. That commercial hit, big yellow taxi, was understood by all, and yet that concept never entered the mind of most people before she wrote it. Visionary artist and touched by God.
THEJET52 4 months ago
@THEJET52 - I think human beings ought to be careful
about the words they use. "Genius", "touched by god" and
"visionary artist" (what other kind are there?) are used so
often now that they're cliches. I might understand "Big
Yellow Taxi" but that doesn't mean I agree with it. I find her
PERSONALLY and MUSICALLY less than compelling. Her
voice is often intentionally discordantIf (?). If she has "talent"
it seems to lie in her ability to justify SMOKING CIGARETTES
and CHILD ABANDONMENT.
thegrinchl7 4 months ago
Thankyou for sharing this video. Same for me (I call them journeys), very thankful to find this interview! I haven't tried hard drugs but wonder if some of the aspects are similar? And thank you Joni for the music, a beautiful jewel from Saskatchewan!!
danceswithcrayons 5 months ago
OMG....Tavis is like, "what was my question"??....lol.
You can ask Joni simple questions,,,,,but don't expect a simple answer.
mygirlruth 5 months ago
Joni's got something to say about everything - I mean everything! But yes, if Joni's brains were jingle bells, she would sure make a racket!
rory8585 6 months ago
Jodi...? Why did that give me a giggle. I love you Joni.
steelydrwu 6 months ago
I have ALWAYS loved Joni and nothing She says here will in any way diminish her talent, BUT, ... man ... the sixties were sure good to her, as She still seems to be stuck there. Aura?? Antenna?? Gap to her subconscious ??? screw the smoking issue, that's the LEAST of it.
smartin807 6 months ago
I think of Joni as an idiot savant, musically she's brilliant but if brains were jingle bells would Joni make a sound? Something to meditate on.
shadedPassage 7 months ago
Diane Rovell is still gorgeous and I love her look Hey wait a minute LOL
coolsweetgroovy 7 months ago
Well, it is a shame that they spend so much time talking about "herbs" and smoking. More time should be spent discussing the two great albums "Court & Spark" and "Blue"....period.
vegasnites777 1 year ago
@vegasnites777 Tavis didn't spend so much time talking about it; Joni did. I love Joni, and think she's one of the great geniuses ever, but it's almost funny to hear her rationalizing her smoking addiction.
mokamo23 11 months ago 3
@vegasnites777 and For The Roses and Hejira.
Uktrayf 8 months ago
all she talks about is smoking. Maybe that is why she is so sick with that skin disease now, smoking.
adorejunk 1 year ago
@adorejunk Oh I know a lot of non smokers who are so sick because they eat crap fast food etc. America is fat but its ok to stuff your face and raise health costs and there skin looks all blotchy but if you smoke your evil. Ha Ha This country is anal and trained and boring. Give me bettie Davis or Joan Mitchelll smoking than some fast food boring non smoker.
ghoula69 1 year ago
@ghoula69 I agree totally with you, that is why I am a vegan who eats raw. Jodi admits to smokes since she was 9, but as singer that is insane. When your angelic voice is your career, why risk hurting it with smoking? Jodi has Morgellon's syndrome and says she has had it for the last 20 years. I would say that smoking has to contribute to any disease and most certainly this one.
adorejunk 1 year ago
@adorejunk I think the deeper voice defines a lot of her later work.
Uktrayf 1 year ago
@adorejunk Her name is Joni. Not Jodi.
matte901 11 months ago
She got older for sure...is still awesome, and a true artist indeed. She touched me in a way few artists do..with her songs about men, life...I love Joni.
calgalnow 1 year ago
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bellatruth 1 year ago
SHE AINT NO CHRISTIAN, that's for sure.
bellatruth 1 year ago
@bellatruth
mishasdream 1 year ago
"I once had a thief brush by me and go, "Thief". She once said that everyone in her life stole from her. I think her wallet "sticks out further than normal", not her "aura". And tobacco is a "grounding herb"? If this was your average, anonymous, smoker, I wonder if Mr. Smiley would have been as indulgent. Also, the issue is cigarette smoking which is a dirty, noxious, fetid habit - a prison, the opposite of sex and romance, (her recurring themes) and she knows it. She thinks we're stupid.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
I always wondered when this condition would be explained so accurately...she did it so well!
Jimala3 1 year ago
What the HELL is she taking about??!!! :-)
IAWAF 1 year ago
@IAWAF Calm down,..It's ok; You wouldn't understand..... don't think she's 'taking' anything, but she is talking quite a bit. ... and she talks about you in the CharlieRose interview; go see it.
HINCHCLIFFE69 1 year ago
I love her.
IggyM 1 year ago
What an ass - asking about her smoking. it's a f'n disease - not the smoking, but the self-righteous, conformist, groupthink that has taken over the world. We are no longer allowed to be individuals. Political correctness, suppression of individuality, etc. One giant monolithic, corporate ideology. What a shame.
slickvguy 1 year ago 9
@slickvguy
what bullshit u are...how about the secondary smoke as she puffs it into her friends faces....and when the doc tells her that persistent cough she has.."well we'll have to do a lung x-ray"...and when he shows a huge neoplasm....
well...shes right ...tobacco is a grounding herb...it will put u in the ground
travis asked a legit question...not to be mean...but how does a brilliant woman would out cancer sticks in her mouth daily for decades?
hard to believe...RIP
ChiroQuacker 1 month ago
@ChiroQuacker I can forgive the stupidity, but not the rudeness. I wonder why it is that people like you can't handle opposing viewpoints? Also, your post is borderline (pardon the pun) incoherent. Smoking is a personal choice and it's nobody's business. It's as inappropriate as asking her about oral sex. 2nd hand smoke is nonsense (unless you work in a bar or place where you are constantly breathing in smoke), used by puritanical finger-waggers to get their way.
slickvguy 1 month ago
@slickvguy
you friggin bonehead..
joni does most of her smoking at home...no in bars...at her home she has pets..the beloved pets reek from smoke and are inhaling it 24/7,,.THATS CALLED ANIMAL CRUELTY
and what about concern for her friends and family...oh yeah thats right she dont have a family...no spouse...no children or grandchildren are in her life..especially after she slapped her long lost daughter in the face...daughter called LAPD filed report...FACT
i hope u smoke..RIP muthafucker
ChiroQuacker 1 month ago
@slickvguy Why not ask about it? I don't understand what it has to do with "groupthink."
manaz22 3 weeks ago
Lazurm,
I appreciate your comments, but we have differing opinions. She has a known brain disorder, which talks about herself. Tangential thought processes are typical for this disorder. I'm not dissing her or criticizing her, I wish it weren't so, but it just is. Hauser43 kind of hit on the point in maybe a more street sense way. Whatever. She's still a very talented person.
walnutstreet1 1 year ago
I love Joni Mitchell but what a bunch of cosmic bullshit.
Hauser43 1 year ago
@Hauser43 LOL!!! I agree; good thing we have her records, huh?
estyle40 1 year ago
I still love Joni Mitchell
oldschoolbbass 1 year ago
@dogcrazy, I think as DAHKSYDE, the problem is not smokers, its tyrants that want people to die if they don't do what they want them to. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, they didn't let you do anything unless they authorized it, we are heading down the same road. Schools are the same way, kids can have sex, abortions, cheat and stuff, but don't smoke that is worse than any else. Sounds like you need a brain cleaning and I don't mean washing, you've already had that.
redi4golf 1 year ago
Let he who is without sin throw the first stone at her.....interviewers
nochartmozart 1 year ago
It's good to hear this fine lady speaking favourably about smoking. Here in the UK smokers have become the new lepers. If you smoke here your looked down upon and forced to leave the room or stand in the street. And this by one of the most degerate, generations this country has ever produced. Our youth are alcoholics and drug abusers par excellence. And this is accepted a normal. Yet smoking is fround upon. What a f----d up place this country is.
DAHKSYDE 1 year ago
Black sabrani's did she say?
She is so wise and still kind of humorous as well.
alSation81 1 year ago
tavis smiley is a turd
chicagochick1972 1 year ago
Do you really think Joni smokes those chemical-laden death sticks one finds at the corner store? Tobacco is not what causes cancer, all the other crap that goes into the average cigarette is the culprit.
amandaberesford 1 year ago
@amandaberesford The amount of by-product in a cigarette is infintesimally small. Although, I agree I do not want things like asbestos, cyanide, etc. in any amount -- I don't care how tiny. But let's face it, the chemical by-product hit from cigarettes isn't the only danger. When you burn anything - even an organic weed like tobacco or pot -- you're still inhaling a burnt product which produces carbon poisoning in the lungs and bloodstream and eventually heart failure, organ faliure or cancer.
wildnites558 1 year ago
Smoke up Joni it's christmas
Everyone has a different tolerance
level - not to mention - she's over 18 - knows the diff. - accepts what happens
Her tolerance must be at superhuman levels
because she hasn't died from public bullshit yet!
yourunclehank1 1 year ago
she started at 9...she's now 66 (almost 67)...this music genius seems fine...my mother-in-law's 81, a staunch smoker since her teens...and is in fine health...to each his/her own
bottom line, we live our own lives and we're ALL GOING TO DIE...no one's immune to that
Joni rocks!
sbrownie 1 year ago
It's a shame that such a talented soul is slowly killing herself with cigarettes - but it's what she wants to do so more power to her!
vegasguitars 1 year ago
A true tired old bag who has one of the more unique rationales for her cigareete smoking. Geez what a wingnut! It's called nicotine addiction...save that Morphine drip for when the lung cancer metastasizes to the bone (at least it will not effect her mentation. She's nuts already) As for cancer this isn't an 'if' it is a 'when' unless heart disease hits 1st.
1caninelover 1 year ago
Ok - you want the bitter truth? NONE of us are going to get out of this alive!
zthetha 1 year ago
Cancer cures smoking.
-jcr
NSResponder 1 year ago
@NSResponder lol, yeah, by KILLING you!
truthspeaks84 1 year ago
Like Joni, I had my first puff of a cigarette at a very early age. I think I was 8. I'm 10 years younger than her, but recently I had a heart attack. While I had a few bad eating habits, I attribute my problems to heavy smoking, since there is little genetic history of heart disease in my family. I loved smoking, Now I am 46 days cold turkey and rehabbing nicely. I'd light up with Joni in a second, but however she rationalizes the "benefits" of smoking is just that: rationalization.
sportsmediaamerica 1 year ago
Here's the "Deal" with Joni Mitchell
-Her Music and Lyrics are Intensely Personal--
Thus Intensely Personal People Can Gyrate To Her Beat and Weep Over Her Incredible Ourpourings that are -- intensely persional and autobiographical...
Extremely well crafted poetry and imagry hellp her depict, thus they serve her greatly---it flows...
A Great Talent with Words.
So Be IT!
mhowardONE 1 year ago
thanks to 'nutjobs', we get beautiful music, thoughts, stories, poems, art... i wish more people were a little nutty.
herbalvegas 2 years ago
Hmmmm
ridewave444 2 years ago
DB,
That's ok. It's just an observation about a person with a seemingly very good heart. As I said, I hope it was temporary, but it's not functional to speak or think in that way. I understand it appears maybe simply unusual or peculiar, unless you see it from a diagnostic perspective. It's like a person having a fever, it's just a symptom of something underlying, maybe very brief.
walnutstreet1 2 years ago
It would be easy to think she is simply eccentric, or lost. But this is disordered thought from either a cognitive or psychological impairment. She is speaking in a fragmented, tangential process, with bizarre and deluded content. This is hopefully temporary, possibly a result of several neurological disorders in her history. It's there to a lesser degree in other interviews. A brilliant mind.
walnutstreet1 2 years ago
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DangerousBastard 2 years ago
Okay... I was a little sarcastic there. Please dont take it personally, as it was not meant to offend. I just dont like this view of the world that everybody has a disorder and should be on Ritalin, or something like that. People are different, and they're SUPPOSED to be that way. Its not a disorder.
DangerousBastard 2 years ago
(I deleted the previous post to which I was referring)
DangerousBastard 2 years ago
@walnutstreet1 It sounds as though you didn't understand what Joni was saying. She was quoting others and her body language revealed her doubts as to what some of them said, while taking in what she deemed useful. Not disordered, impaired or tangential at all.
lazurm 1 year ago 3
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@lazurm Lazurm,
I appreciate your comments, but we have differing opinions. She has a known brain disorder, which talks about herself. Tangential thought processes are typical for this disorder. I'm not dissing her or criticizing her, I wish it weren't so, but it just is. Hauser43 kind of hit on the point in maybe a more street sense way. Whatever. She's still a very talented person.
walnutstreet1 1 year ago
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walnutstreet1 2 years ago
I'm not a smoker but Joni is so good at it that she makes it seem so pure and natural. Mind you, she likes cigarettes that are almost pure tobacco, not filled with the kind of carniogenic toxins in manufactured ones. Smoking pure tobacco will still damage you in ways but maybe its relative natural quality is why Joni seems to carry on without significant problems though I'm sure cancer will get her in the end. But she's 66- too old to stop now!
journeythruthepast 2 years ago
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MsLeitmotiv 2 years ago
Listen, She's so intelligent it's scary ..she is the Virgina Woolf of Music...to be THAT gifted/ talented ... to those of us less intelligent...we can't understand the Genius ....some people just don't get it...and I don't think Joni is trippin' about what people think...xo
PeaceFan1 2 years ago 3
Yikes! Love her music, but ...ooops! Wrong Planet!
JHDthe8 2 years ago 3
I was wowed by her music when I 1st heard it in '73, but I never saw her interviewed 'till today. The gal is a whack job! LOL...strait out of the 60's! But thats cool.
str8carter 2 years ago
What is a "whack job", and how does Joni Mitchell, in all her brilliant insight into human nature and courageous honesty, qualify as one?
loosetea 2 years ago
I don't remerber the content of the interview, but if I said whack job I meant she was a little buggy, half stoned on pot or drunk.
str8carter 2 years ago
Seen this lady as a 17yr old....fell in love with her voice,then her music...and the romance has lasted 37yrs! Genius is a word that is overused....in Joni's case it is inadequate!
rainycityman1 2 years ago 2
wow that is beautiful. It's true there are no words to completely describe this woman's incredible gifts.
I only wish she wasn't such a cig head ;-) I could see cigarette companies rubbing their hands together in glee for her praise of tobacco.
mrfunker 2 years ago
I Offiacialy love her
vaughnsalem 2 years ago
antennas she has now lost the plot officially
morghath 2 years ago
she has cosmic conciousness
minfo2000 2 years ago 2
Joni went to art school. Everything she says sounds normal to me.
kirkindysolospock 2 years ago 3
@kirkindysolospock That is because everyone in art school was dropping blotter and listening to folk music.
TheGreatGonzoMan 2 years ago
Whew... o...k....
riverdale999 2 years ago
I wish she didn't smoke, but she does. More importantly, she is a true artist and many true artists have sensitivities that require something to deal with them. Joni, like John Lennon is one of the more important songwriters of not only our time, but of all time. Also like John Lennon, Joni is an open book, has a world view and picks up things that you or I wouldn't. So of course she lives life differently than you or I.
"Don't criticize what you can't understand." (Bob Dylan)
thestoryplease 2 years ago 3
...is she crazy?
satchelluc 2 years ago
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smoking since 9 what is she smoking? she is not a real blonde they are either blue eyed or green joni has nickel grey eyes
atfatw 2 years ago
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knock off the shit joni..smoking kills u and those around you..admit it..plus it aged the shit out of u..sure your an old bag now but u should look a bit better and the smoking ages your face plus the nutty thoughts....joni slapped the shit out of her daughter and the cops came to her home..a real mess
BabyGwar 2 years ago
babygwar,
why didn't the cops arrest 'sweet joni' cuz she is rich thats why!
atfatw 2 years ago
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see looks like Jar-Jar-Bings these days
thomasortmann1991 2 years ago
I love her song "A Case of You" its amazing
TasteMe555 2 years ago 18
@TasteMe555 i love ''help me'
lippy170 1 year ago
This lady is a true artist. She has written so many great songs and paints and some of you are so pathetic that all you talk about is that she smokes. Jesus martha you people are so fucking lame.
ghoula69 2 years ago 23
@ghoula69
Totally agree! I drink coffee, Joe down the road burps...who cares!!;-)
ptjkane 1 year ago
@ghoula69 typical fundamentalists who believe they'll be judged on something as pathetic as cussing even...usually, they can't the the wood for the trees in real live...they are prominently living in isolation...oh yeah, like hermits, with nothing better to do.
ilindah 1 year ago
@ghoula69 The thing is, this clip is from an interview in which she talks about smoking. You want to talk about her great songs and her painting? Great! Post a clip where she is interviewed about her great songs or her painting, and go for it!
MrErdner 1 year ago
@ghoula69 Agreed. One of the true music legends of all time, yet all they can comment on is some trivial, petty shit about her smoking. They have no idea what a consummate genius she is (and always has been)
GUIDOBRAT 11 months ago
This guy has no idea what she is talking about - 1:30 "..uh huh.."
zenradio 2 years ago
she's way cool and she smokes......some comments here are truly meanspirited and have no bearing on her beliefs which she is nice enough to share. This is not a syposium on smoking its just a glimpse at an artist and her world.
nomadseawolf 3 years ago 7
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and she's full of shit too. why are so many well known industry stalwarts so occult minded? all that shit about antennae. people like mitchell have had their ego's so inflated over the years that they develop personal mystical theories that validate their talent. humans are so self centered. why no just say, yea...i love music..and i love playing with kick ass drummers too!!
350kph 3 years ago
Yeah, you're a fine example of a self centered ego :) Congratulations.
Like ddviolinist says... You just don't get it :) Poor you.
Demoras 2 years ago
your right....
350kph 2 years ago
Your full of your own shit you pecker head
ghoula69 2 years ago
gee your right too. so many clever people setting things straight on the tube.
350kph 2 years ago
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let the withered hag smoke....do you really care if she does or doesn't?....wild things must be still running fast baby!!.....Vinnie rocks....and he's a Jesus freak...what is more abhorrent? religion or smoking?
350kph 3 years ago
You blow, Your jealous of her talent, period.
ghoula69 2 years ago 4
hey your so smart. how did you know?
350kph 2 years ago
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matte901 3 years ago
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ps Joni, Your not out of the woods of harsh smoking effects yet. Another icon ,Bette Davis, paid the price in her 70's with strokes and cancer ravaging those last years.
danieldrownr 3 years ago
Yeah and most people if not smoking are stuffing their faces with meat and sweats and trans fats. I know so many people who don't smoke who are fat and sick. Can't you just appreciate her music? She smoking near you
ghoula69 2 years ago 2
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Joni, honey, Your six decades of smoking are wriiten all over that withered body and face.
danieldrownr 3 years ago
and voice
grai 2 years ago
She is absoutely wonderful. an amazing artist who is interesting as a person!
KatharineGoldsbrough 3 years ago 3
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just another fucked up whack job searching for something. pretty voice though!!!
sloopguy 3 years ago
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rambling!
okhan001 4 years ago
she isn't rambling. You just don't get it.
ddviolinist 3 years ago 5
smoking,just as drinking,isn't the problem. Genetics is the problem. Some people smoke and drink their entire lives and never get bad effects, others can't. It's genetics. But you can't tell that to a nanny state that lumps everyone together. So much for freedom.
blessedvic 4 years ago
That is so biologically and scientifically wrong it's hilarious. But genetics do play into it.
sheburns12 3 years ago
sheburns12: it's called freedom. Until political correctness people were free to decide for themselves how they would live. Being free means being free to do stupid things. Abe Lincoln said "my freedom stops where your nose begins."
blessedvic 3 years ago
...that's great, but you still posted claims that were completely factually incorrect. I don't even know why you just posted this, nothing I said debated freedom. Claiming that "genetics" is the problem is biologically and scientifically incorrect and if you had done any research instead of listening to someone who is speaking solely out of personal experience then you would know that as well.
There's nothing much else to say. What you just said has nothing to do with anything.
sheburns12 3 years ago
I personally know people in their 70's and 80's who smoke like a chimney and are in perfect health for their age.Smoking in itself does not guarantee health problems.
blessedvic 3 years ago 2
So you honestly believe that because of your tiny diagnostic, it goes to represent that everyone in the world functions in the same manner? That it's either bad health problems or it's not?
Unless you have done x-rays and ultrasounds on them yourself, you have absolutely no say in whether or not those people have health problems.
And FYI, the degeneration of Joni's voice nowadays is due to her smoking since she was 9 years old. Genetics can make health problems vary but not disappear.
sheburns12 3 years ago
Smoking since 9 - if only she hadn't,her gorgeous voice would still be without
peers.Still love her (and I have NEVER
smoked).I am also one of those with the
extra large antennae (aura)
lancitos 4 years ago