musicartistwisdom:

“I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. I read a lot. I guess you’d say I was pretty intellectual.
It’s odd, I can’t remember when it changed. It used to make me very
unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But
now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me. I’m full of emotion
and I want a release, and if you’re on stage and if it’s really working
and you’ve got the audience with you, it’s a oneness you feel. I’m into
me, plus they’re into me, and everything comes together. You’re full of
it. I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’
is all about”.

Janis Joplin