3 December 2020 Joan Jett I’ve done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it’s the music.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it’s great that now, 25 years later, we’re not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That’s really exciting for us.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett I sure saw a lot of kids that I’m sure didn’t know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we’d talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I’m sure we made a lot of new fans.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett I do not knowingly kill any living thing – including insects or rodents – and I thank my food for sustaining me.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett 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.