You Know You've Got It, If It

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

Audiences Like Their Blues Singers To Be Miserable.

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.

I'd Rather Have Ten Years Of Superhypermost Than Live To Be Seventy Sitting In Some Goddamn Chair Watching Tv.

I Read, I Painted, I Didn't Hate Niggers.