This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing, er,
it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in
Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I f ... that was on

inside of me and not play games. You see, actually what I'm trying to do mostly,
if I, in the whole world, is to not bull%#@! myself, and not bull%#@! anybody
else. To be righteous to myself, I mean to be real, you know what I mean ? And

so far, you know I'm, I'm just tryin' to ... I'm doin' that, I am, you know. I'm
not wearin' cardboard eyelashes, and, and, you know, and girdles, and playin' in
Las Vegas. By still bein' Janis, I just happens to be on a slightly different

level or somethin' now. And ... you know I suppose it's because I've never been
premeditated enough in show-business that I was worried about putting on a, a
face, you know what I mean ? So I can sit here and tell you the truth. You know

? Otherwise it's slightly inhibiting, really, it doesn't, it doesn't force a
game on me, because I refuse to let it force a game on me. So I can sit here and
be just as honest as I would be in a bar, although I'd be a lot happier in a

bar!