Quotes By Joan Jett

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

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

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

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'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.

Disharmony is natural in any band.

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.

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.

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 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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

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.

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 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.