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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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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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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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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 love school. I was a great student.
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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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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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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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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
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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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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 feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on I've been there. I know what the press would do.
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Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.
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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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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.
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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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