Quotes from Joan Jett

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.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

Things work in cycles.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

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.

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don't know now, try to figure it out.

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

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.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

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

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.

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 do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.