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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Joan Jett

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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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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I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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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.
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I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.
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I think it's important to have mystique.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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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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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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One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock 'n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
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When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.
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Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.
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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.
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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
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Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.
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The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that's your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.
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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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I love to engage with people who come to see us.
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The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.
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It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
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