i sold everything i owned and i joni mitchell. fleetwood. what was the moment? >> i had about a year of writing music for films which i loved doing and i will continue to do that. i was doing that for about a year and then i love listening to music in the car. it is the thing. it's where i get to flow my album. love it in the car. really loud. and then -- and inhe where fleetwood mac and joni mitchell wrote that music and you just feel the connection to where you are and that time. can you imagine? >> los angeles is a creative place. >> of course. >> we lose sight of that. >> no, of course it is. >> because of all the reality shows and stuff that come through. >> i just started doing that thing of waking up at 4:00 in the morning with these big choruses in my head. the last record had been a folk record. if it wasn't folk songs i they were these really big pop songs that i haven't written since the first record in this way. but i now have this real new found mojo and confidence of being wiser and older. >> and you have a connection to us and this show. >> yes. b

"joni mitchell was supposed to play woodstock. she was supposed to play the last day on a sunday but on a monday she was supposed to do the dick cavett show which was her first major american broadcast in her career. when it was obvious there was going to be more than 100,000 people there, our magers decided that maybe joni shouldn't goand so joni didn't go to woodstock. by the time we got back to the hotel, she'd already written woodstock - 90- percent of it anyway and it was amazing to us that she could pin down the exact essence of what was happening at woodstock in a song, having never been. that's how good she is." as the '60s came to a close, the media spotlight was shining on places like new york's greenwich village and san francisco's haight- ashbury. musicians started migrating to an area in the hollywood hills known as laurel canyon. "during the first c-s-n record, i was in love with joni and living with joni in laurel canyon. "steven was in love with judy collins and dave was in love with his girlfiriend, christine. by

because we're playing -- it's such serious work and terry would show up with a guitar and sing joni mitchell songs on set. oh, i like him. yeah. that's our director adam >> wonderful. "secrets and lies." can we play a little game with that? >> oh, yes. >> play a little game? okay. [ applause ] what we're going to do, since you are our guest we'll let you tart first. she'll make two statements and we have to determine what is the secret and what is the lie. >> okay. >> go ahead. go ahead. >> get into character. >> okay, i'm going to use my actingables or not. that i drove illegally for a couple of years when i was 16, you know, i don't know. >> without a license? >> without a license. yes. >> so that's one and that's one. >> is that a lie or something? [ chanting "secret" ] >> you were only 16. >> and the >> did and then there's a picture that we're going to show. is this me as a baby just enjoying a herd of labradors? >> is that you? >> in the sunshine. >> i hope it was. >> yea-ya. >> do we tell? >> i think the first illegal driving was true. >> i think -- >> i think that was a secret. >> i'