Sasha Weiss

But there is just a kind of knowingness, unbotheredness and drollery that I found extremely charming and funny and interesting. You know, she's not ingratiating. She just isn't.

It may be worth saying that this is the second time in her life where she... came back from a severe illness. When she was a young girl, she had polio. And she was stricken for months and couldn't walk. And apparently, really... sort of dreamed herself back into walking. She was lying in a bed and she was determined to walk.

It may be worth saying that this is the second time in her life where she... came back from a severe illness. When she was a young girl, she had polio. And she was stricken for months and couldn't walk. And apparently, really... sort of dreamed herself back into walking. She was lying in a bed and she was determined to walk.

And there's some real force of will there, obviously, you know, some capacity for self-creation that she had even as a young girl. And I don't know, to me, there's something really amazing and, I mean, very upsetting about the fact that she had another experience of...

And there's some real force of will there, obviously, you know, some capacity for self-creation that she had even as a young girl. And I don't know, to me, there's something really amazing and, I mean, very upsetting about the fact that she had another experience of...

That's what we've been talking about the whole time.

That's what we've been talking about the whole time.

She was even younger when she wrote that song.

She was even younger when she wrote that song.

I love you right out loud It was an incredible thing to witness. I mean, there's a beautiful line in that song. Something's lost and something's gained. And the way she phrased it in the performance I saw, she really elongated the word gained.

I love you right out loud It was an incredible thing to witness. I mean, there's a beautiful line in that song. Something's lost and something's gained. And the way she phrased it in the performance I saw, she really elongated the word gained.

But something's gained In my living every day

But something's gained In my living every day

I felt like she was taking in the riches of experience right there on the stage in front of all of us. And it was incredibly transcendently moving.

I felt like she was taking in the riches of experience right there on the stage in front of all of us. And it was incredibly transcendently moving.

Yes.

Yes.

No, I'm just, like, re-inhabiting it. Yeah, I mean, it just felt like the profundity of life right there in the Hollywood Bowl, you know?

No, I'm just, like, re-inhabiting it. Yeah, I mean, it just felt like the profundity of life right there in the Hollywood Bowl, you know?

I can't believe we're lucky enough to experience living on Earth with Joni Mitchell. Who is still able to interpret her own music 60 years later. Yeah. In a time of doubt and turbulence in the world. That got absorbed into that night, too. The personal and the kind of national and political meaning in all of that, in that song.