Joni sat down for a conversation with her lifelong friend Clive Davis for his virtual six-hour Grammy party. She touched on music from her early years, her infamous dinner parties, her music influence today and more. "It is what it is. It's just the residue of my work, you know. It seems to be another generation has grasped (it).. I mean, I drove to West L.A. and young boys, pre-teeners, were waving at me from the curb. I thought, Oh my God, that's amazing. ... The man who put on my art show her

“I was not happy with mass public attention and I withdrew. I built a stone cottage up on the northern coast of British Columbia. There I planned to spend the rest of my life as a hermit. My soul was recovering, repairing itself. One day I dove off the rocks into the water and I came up. It was like a black mirror, the trees were reflected in it. As I burst the surface I broke into laughter I so happy. And I had seen mink and animals you know sliding off mud banks and playing with their own joy