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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
Actor
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Philadelphia
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Joan Marie Larkin
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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'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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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.
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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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Disharmony is natural in any band.
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I think it's what the times are demanding. If you're talking about the popular artists, they collaborate with a lot of different people and it seems to be in vogue now. It probably is indicative of the times.
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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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I think it's important to have mystique.
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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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If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
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A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.
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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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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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I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.
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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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Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
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I think the one-on-one gigs connecting with the fans - is the most important thing. That will help build your fan base. They'll talk about you, and word spreads. Those things are just as important as knowing how to play an E chord.
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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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