Joan Jett
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.Collection: Movies
Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Time
People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Equality
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Sports
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Strength
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.Collection: Food
It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.Collection: Humor
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
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.
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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.
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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.
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.
I've always got something to say.
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
I think it's important to have mystique.
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.
One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
I have a tough time judging myself.
I know music is subjective.
Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.
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.
I don't look good in beige.
I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
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?'
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.
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.
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.
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 had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
I love to engage with people who come to see us.
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.
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.
I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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.
My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.