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Joan Jett

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    Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.

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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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    A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

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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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    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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    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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    As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and I could see the look in their eyes. They were practically frothing at the mouth. So if I answered these questions, I knew they were never gonna talk about the music. It was like that instinct — don’t go there, man. Have boundaries. Have mystery. You don’t have to let everybody in! I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I’m singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

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    At this point, a lot of people have made their mind up about me one way or another. I'm sure there's a certain segment of writers who won't ever give me the time of day, hate me, don't get me, don't think I'm good, or whatever. I guess that's fine. It's only an opinion. There are other people who do get it, and can be objective. I could be wrong, but a lot of people, except for really young people, have made up their minds one way or the other.

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    Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

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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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    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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    Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

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    Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

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    Disharmony is natural in any band.

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    Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

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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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    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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    Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

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    Fetish is a straight-up sex song.

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    Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

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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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    God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

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    Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

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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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    I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

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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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    I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

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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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    I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.

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    I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

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    I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

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    I fiercely protect my privacy. I just don't think it's everyone's business to know every little detail about my life. That's just the way I've handled myself.

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    I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

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    If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous.

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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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    If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

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    If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

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    If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

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    I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

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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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    I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

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    I know music is subjective.

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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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    I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

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    I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

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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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    I love to engage with people who come to see us.

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    I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.