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I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.
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I love to engage with people who come to see us.
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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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When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And I've wanted to write about politics or spiritual ideas for years.
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A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
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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.
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If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don't know now, try to figure it out.
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The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
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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.
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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 always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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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.
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I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.
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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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The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.
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