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

Joan Jett

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
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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.
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I think it's important to have mystique.
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
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Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.
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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
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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.
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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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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.
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Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go damn if I'd only been myself. Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation.
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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.
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I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
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I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
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It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.
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I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
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We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.
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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.
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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.
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