People Quotes

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

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.