264 Quotes by Joan Jett

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.

Something happens, you can’t even put your finger on it, and then you don’t quite feel the same way anymore. All of a sudden, there’s fights or something and you are going “who is this person?” I’ve seen this happen to other people and it has happened to me.

Girls have got balls. They’re just a little higher up, that’s all.

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it’s important to have mystique. It’s important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you’re singing to them.

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

Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, “We own our sexuality.” I think that pop music is sort of about “you can do what you want to me” kind of energy, while rock and roll is “I’m going to do what I want to you” kind of energy.

I don’t really care if you think I’m strange – I ain’t gonna change!

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 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.