Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
From Janis Joplin
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
I'm one of those regular weird people.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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