Quotes By Joan Jett

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'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.

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.

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

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.

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

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

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.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Disharmony is natural in any band.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

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

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.

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

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.