Joni Quotes

"I`m working on a demo and putting down tracks this week, actually. I write all my own music. It`s like Sheryl Crow`s and Joni Mitchell`s stuff. I`m totally staying away from the Britney Spears thing - I don`t want to be marketed and packaged".

(Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she`s working on a solo CD.) It`s kind of up in the air, ... I`m having a hard time; I want to make it special. Musical theatre is my first love. My writing is sort of folk-rock. I get compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell '” though I`m not nearly as talented as either. Neither a straight-pop album nor a musical-theatre album seems the way to go. I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and `popularize` them '” do a true crossover. I`m working on it.

(Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she`s working on a solo CD.) It`s kind of up in the air, ... I`m having a hard time; I want to make it special. Musical theatre is my first love. My writing is sort of folk-rock. I get compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell though I`m not nearly as talented as either. Neither a straight-pop album nor a musical-theatre album seems the way to go. I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and `popularize` them do a true crossover. I`m working on it.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.