Joan Jett

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

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

“I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.”

“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.”

“I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.”

“So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.”

“You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.”

“One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.”

“I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.”

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

“People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.”

“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.”

“Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.”

“Pop music is not a threatening style of music.”

“I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.”

“I love school. I was a great student.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.”

“I don't look good in beige.”