American - Musician | September 22, 1958 -
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Joan Jett
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I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'
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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
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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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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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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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I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
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Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
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And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
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I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
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