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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.

Joan Jett

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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Philadelphia
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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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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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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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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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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 were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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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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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 love to engage with people who come to see us.
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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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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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Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
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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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A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.
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I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
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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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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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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
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Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
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