But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

People expect Janis Joplin to be a tough bitch, and say I start talking to them like a lonely little girl-that's not in their image of me-they don't see it. Say you meet somebody you've heard about, you don't ever see them, you don't see who they are and who they need to be recognized as, you see who you need them to be.

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.