Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.