Quotes By Joan Jett

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

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.

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.

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

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've always got something to say.

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.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

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.

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.

I have a tough time judging myself.

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.