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, 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 force 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!
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