Janis Joplin Quotes

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

It's such a release to show yourself as not a charming person but just someone who is vulnerable.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

Those parts of myself that are too ugly or dangerous are precisely the things I feel convicted to share.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

I try to talk openly from how I feel. People may not agree with it. It may sound foreign to them. That's an uncomfortable position for some people, to be sentimental, nostalgic - it's all kind of the same.