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

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

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

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.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Why it’s been left to me to smooth things over, I don’t know. Dennis Rodman, of all people.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.