Joan Jett Quotes
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
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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 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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Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.
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Things work in cycles.
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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
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I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.
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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.
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Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
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You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
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I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
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Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
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For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'