In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.
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.
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