Joni Mitchellgot personal in a rare interview about how the evolution of her music made her male counterparts feel.
“I started scraping my own soul more and more and got more humanity in it.”
Like, ‘Does this mean we have to do this now?’
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But over time, I think it did make an influence.
It encouraged people to write more from their own experience."
“She just treated me like a bad child and I quit piano lessons.
From then on, I was self-taught.”
It was thanks to her talent and tenacity that she would go on to inspire musicians forgenerations.
“People used to say to me, ‘Nobody’s ever going to cover your songs.
They’re too personal,'” Mitchell shared during the virtual event.
“And yet, that’s not true, they’re getting a lot of covers.
It’s just humanness that I’m trying to describe.
Mitchell has struggled with her health in recent years.
In 2015, she suffereda brain aneurysmrupture and has made few public appearances.
