When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
I love being a star more than life itself.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.
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