Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

The more you live, the less you die.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

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 you've got it, if it makes you feel good.