At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

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.