Joan Jett Quotes

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

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.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

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

I'm a good person.

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.

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

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

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 the

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

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.