Quotes by Joan Jett

“I know who you are, and I am not impressed.”

“My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am.”

Its easier to sit there and say you dont like feminists because they dont have a sense of humor.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I dont know.

Im 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.

I think I was born strong-willed. Thats 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.

Even though everybodys lives are different, in general were all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. Thats always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still dont see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

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 womens rules.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Life is strong and fragile. Its a paradox... Its both things, like quantum physics: Its a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

People dont want to see women doing things they dont think women should do.

When youre onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and youre all on the same level, its the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but its like pure love.

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

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, What are you talking about? Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if its not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

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.