The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals

At that period in my life, I had no personal defenses.

I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes.

I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy.

But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there either.

Joni Mitchell