Quotes By Joan Jett

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

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.

I love school. I was a great student.

I'm not a list person.

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.

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.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

Women are still second-class citizens.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

I've always got something to say.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

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.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Disharmony is natural in any band.

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.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

I have a tough time judging myself.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

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.

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.