Quotes By Joan Jett

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

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.