I Don't Wish To Embarrass

Everyone Has Their Set Of Problems And I'm Certainly Not Going To Sensationalize Mine Or Try To Evoke Pity Or Sympathy Out Of People Because I Don't Think They Warrant That Sort Of Thing. That's My Private Karma That I Have To Work Out.

I Don't Want My Children To Be At A Disadvantage, Growing Up In The Limelight, Because Then They Have To Live Up To An Identity Already Cut Out For Them, Relating All The Time To Being So-and-so's Daughter Or So-and-so's Son.

The Thing About Janis Is That She Just Looked So Unique, An Ugly Duckling Dressed As A Princess, Fearlessly So. Seeing Her Live Was Like Watching A Boxing Match. Her Performance Was So In Your Face And Electrifying That It Really Put You Right There In The Moment. There You Were Living Your Nice Little Life In The Suburbs And Suddenly There Was This Train Wreck, And It Was Janis.

I Was Never Too Interested In High School. I Mean, I Never Went To A Dance, I Never Went Out On A Date, I Never Went Steady. It Became Pretty Awful For Me. Except, Of Course, I Could Go See Bands, And That Was The Kick. I Used To Go To Cleveland Just To See Any Band. So I Was In Love A Lot Of The Time, But Mostly With Guys In Bands That I Had Never Met. For Me, Knowing That Brian Jones Was Out There, And Later That Iggy Pop Was Out There, Made It Kind Of Hard For Me To Get Too Interested In The Guys That Were Around Me. I Had, Uh, Bigger Things In Mind.

I Think Bob Dylan's A Good Songwriter. I Think He's The Best Songwriter In The World Probably.