“Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?” Settle into the week with Joni's "Big Yellow Taxi," performed at the BBC Television Centre 53 years ago this month. | Joni Mitchell

“There's someone for me somewhere And I still miss someone” 53 years ago today, Joni was a guest on the premiere episode of the Johnny Cash Show on ABC at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. This episode also featured Bob Dylan. | Joni Mitchell

“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