It is well known that some stars, notoriously resplendent in their art, are equally disappointing and uninteresting when the curtain falls and as soon as the artistic persona gives way to the human being.

Do I need to say that Joni Mitchell does not belong to this category, and that the woman "Of Heart And Mind", her lyrics and her music, allowed me to glimpse what was there fully? In any case, from everything I was able to perceive during our four hours spent exchanging, until the time I left at four o'clock in the morning. Her husband Larry Klein, who had stayed with us, fell deeply asleep after a while in one of the armchairs in the lounge of the suite that he and his wife occupied.

I spent most of my time hanging on to Joni Mitchell's every word, listening to her telling me about the context that gave birth to each of these texts, while at the same time looking at the images they had inspired. At this point, we had a few opportunities to laugh at them.

Thus, I had made an illustration inspired by The Boho Dance (The Hissing of Summer Lawns, 1975). In that song, Joni Mitchell wrote this line: "Like a priest with a pornographic watch, looking and longing on the sly".

I had understood that Joni Mitchell alluded to a priest wearing a watch on his wrist designed like those glasses one can find in Chinese restaurants, where a naked woman or a bare man appears at the bottom when the liquid filling it has vanished. A "Porn Watch", then!

I liked very much this idea of some clergyman promised to chastity but looking furtively, with all the lust required, at the silhouette of a naked and helpless being hidden under the hands of his watch. A gadget symbolic of the hypocrisy of religions, as far as human sexuality is concerned. This interpretation seemed logical according to the anthology of the musician’s writings or previous statements on the subject.