Janis Joplin Lyrics
Albert Hall Interview (1969)

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 bullshit myself, and not bullshit 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,
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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 f orce
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!