They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.