Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
Janis JoplinWhen everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
Janis JoplinI'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
Janis JoplinLife 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.
Janis Joplin