Joan Jett
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Biography
"It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor."
"Twenty years ago I thought: "What's the difference between eating a bloody steak and killing my dog, slitting him open and roasting him?" I've always loved animals but it was around the late 80s that I realised I had to go vegetarian. A lot of things converged in my life then – musically, emotionally – but mainly it was my love of animals and spending so much time touring that made me decide I had to change my diet. In the Runaways we used to eat a ton of junk food. So something had to give."
"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."
"We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band."
"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 it's 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."
"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."
"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 it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny."
"You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony."
"I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me."
"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 it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny."
"Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health."
"I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure."
"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."
"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."
"Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records."
"I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans."
"I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music."
"So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us."
"I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music."