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Joan Jett

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 22, 1958

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

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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.

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

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

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I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

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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.

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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.

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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.

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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.

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We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.

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

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Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

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

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

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