People Quotes

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

A friend once said, and I found to be true, that everyday people, they lie to God too, so what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.

If you're out there day after day, going around playing the same places, you pretty much think you've reached your audience. But there's more people finding my music every day.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

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

I'm one of those regular weird people.

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.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.