Joan Jett Quotes - Page 3

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'

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.

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.

Well you know I've been in that place too where you worry about what everybody thinks of you, am I popular, do people care, are they looking at me, all that stuff. That's a drag, man. Having to worry about fitting in, am I cool enough to ANYTHING.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

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

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

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.

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

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

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

Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.

I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.

Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.

Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

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.

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

Disharmony is natural in any band.