Quotes from Joan Jett

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

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

I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

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.

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.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

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

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.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

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

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

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

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

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.

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

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

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

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

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.