"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.“

-Janis Joplin

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"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills."

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