Joan Jett Quotes
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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I love school. I was a great student.
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I'll be working until I die.
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We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
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Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
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You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.
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The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
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Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
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My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
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So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
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I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
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I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
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It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
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You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
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When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
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Things work in cycles.
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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
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I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.
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I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
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I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.