By Capannelle (originally posted to Flickr as Joni Mitchell) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
From Maria Popova, excerpts of a series of interviews by Malka Marom in which the singer/songwriter talks about keeping her creative vision on track through her long career: "The critics dismissed a lot of what I thought was my growth and praised a lot of what I thought common about my work. I disagreed with most of them. So I had to rely a lot on my own opinions, not to say that I wasn’t constantly asking them for advice and mulling it around, not dismissing it."
