Quotes By Joan Jett

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.

I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

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.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

I think it's important to have mystique.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

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.

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.