You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.