Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex. It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like. You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
I love being a star more than life itself.
The older the grapes, the sweeter the wine.
I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.