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In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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Philadelphia
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Joan Marie Larkin
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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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You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
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I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.
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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 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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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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Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
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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 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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So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
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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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It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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Being onstage is everything thats good about life.
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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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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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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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A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.
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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
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I love to engage with people who come to see us.
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