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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.

Joan Jett

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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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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I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.
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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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Being onstage is everything thats good about life.
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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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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.
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I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.
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A lot of people would say well that's not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you're going to mess with that, we have a problem.
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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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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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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 had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
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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 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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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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A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.
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If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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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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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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