Joan Jett

Fetish is a straight-up sex song.

— Joan Jett

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

— Joan Jett

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

— Joan Jett

I love school. I was a great student.

— Joan Jett

Women are still second-class citizens.

— Joan Jett

I'm not a list person.

— Joan Jett

I know music is subjective.

— Joan Jett

I've always got something to say.

— Joan Jett

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

— Joan Jett

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

— Joan Jett

Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

— Joan Jett

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

— Joan Jett

Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great

— Joan Jett

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

— Joan Jett

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

— Joan Jett

A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do,

— Joan Jett

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

— Joan Jett

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

— Joan Jett

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good…

— Joan Jett

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and…

— Joan Jett

“I think there's nothing better than seeing a straight up three-chord rock and roll band in your face.”

— Joan Jett

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the…

— Joan Jett

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

— Joan Jett

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

— Joan Jett

I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and…

— Joan Jett

The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with…

— Joan Jett

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons:…

— Joan Jett

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and…

— Joan Jett

I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and…

— Joan Jett

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened…

— Joan Jett

You can never say never. I'm not sure if I even want to. I just don't know. Some of it is just…

— Joan Jett

If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose…

— Joan Jett

It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I…

— Joan Jett

Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs…

— Joan Jett

I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the…

— Joan Jett

That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But…

— Joan Jett

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of…

— Joan Jett

As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did…

— Joan Jett

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…

— Joan Jett

That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and…

— Joan Jett