“I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.”

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

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.

I enjoy singing music with my audience.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.

I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

I want to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they’re out there and it really bothers me.

Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There’s nothing to relate it to.

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.