264 Quotes by Joan Jett

I’ve been doing this stuff for so long it’s the one aspect of my life that I’ve paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I’m singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

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.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics – I’ve always written about who I am.

Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it’s happening in music, there’s a lot of consolidation.

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

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it’s catchy, and you’ve got a little bit of help, I think that’s all you need. But there hasn’t been that in music.

Only because The Runaways were my baby and there’s no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that’s not the goal, then I don’t want to do 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.