Not sure if my previous post went through, but I respectfully disagree with the poster who said Janis didn't "give a hoot" about her fame. If the biographies are true, then she did care about fame and I don't think she would have bothered to create the 'Pearl' persona she created. She wanted the best of both worlds. She wanted the down to earth, private Janis and she wanted the loud, ostentatious Pearl to hide behind when in public. I think as she tried to get sober (at least from the drugs), this became more and more important to her.