“I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’”

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.

You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.

Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?

My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.

Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!

Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.

I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.

That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament.

Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.

Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.

If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn’t have said sampling.

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.

If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview

To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].

It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.