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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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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.
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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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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
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I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.
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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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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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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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I think it's important to have mystique.
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I know music is subjective.
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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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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
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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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