When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the chance to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect using the performer that she’d first met late one evening in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations adopted over the next four years of a friendly relationship, and it had been just after Joni and Malka completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process.

In Joni Mitchell: In Her Very own Words and phrases, Joni and Malka follow this thread through seven decades of life and art, discussing the influence of Joni’s childhood, love and loss, playing dives and huge festivals, acclaim and criticism, poverty and affluence, glamorous triumphs and tragic mistakes.