Joan jett

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

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...

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...

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.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

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

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