“But she was in love, and love isn't about making sense.”

“I guess we've both managed to plow through a lot of shit. Well listen, it's been enough to make me nothing short of fanatically determined to have it right once and that's what we're doing, right? - Janis Joplin”

“To be an artist was to interpret experiences for others. The more a person turned in to the charismatic forces in life or in a piece of art the more that person lived in the ecstasy of energy we call life”

“Strange it's such a quiet peaceful existence and I'm enjoying it so thoroughly.”

“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.”

“Marching onward, marching onwardMarching to that lovely tuneMarching onward, marching onwardHappy as a bird in JuneSliding onward, sliding onwardListen to that ragHop and skip now do that slow, ohDo that slow dragDance slowly, prance slowlyNow you hear that pretty ragDance slowly, prance slowlyNow you do the real slow dragWaltz slowly, waltz slowlyListen to the ragtimeHop and skipNow do the slow, oh, do the slow drag”

“There isn't going to be any turning point. ... There isn't going to be any next-month-it'll-be-better, next fucking year, next fucking life. You don't have any time to wait for. You just got to look around you and say, "So this is it. This is really all there is to it. This little thing." Everybody needing such little things and they can't get them. Everybody needing just a little ... confidence from somebody else and they can't get it. Everybody, everybody fighting to protect their little feelings. Everybody, you know, like reaching out tentatively but drawing back. It's so shallow and seems so ... fucking ... it seems like such a shame. It's so close to being like really right and good and open and amorphous and giving and everything. But it's not. And it ain't gonna be.September 1969quoted in "The New Yorker" 9 August 1999”