A biography for Joan Jetthasn’t been written yet.
“My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.”
“I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.”
“You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm not a list person.”
“People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.”
“I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.”
“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.”
“Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'”
“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.”
“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 same time. It all exists all together.”
“For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.”
“Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.”
“I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.”
“Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.”
“I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.”
“We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.”
“I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.”
“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.”