Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal.

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality.

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.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Of course, masculinity's changed, but maybe I'm fortunate or privileged to have not been that interested in it.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.