This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing, er, it hasn't yet really compromised the
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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
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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
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bullshit myself, and not bullshit anybody else. To be righteous to myself, I mean to be real, you know what I mean ?
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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,
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and, you know, and girdles, and playin' in Las Vegas. By still bein' Janis, I just happens to be on a slightly different level
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or somethin' now. And... you know I suppose it's because I've never been premeditated enough in show-business that
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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 ?
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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
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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!
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Albert Hall Interview
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