“All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.”

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

When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.

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

The more you live, the less you die.

You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.

Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I’m emotionally moved, but on the other hand I’m Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.

Next to music beer was best.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.

I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.