Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman. "

Related Quotes:

" I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. "

Joan Jett

Peace

Nature

Science

" 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. "

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

" For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent. "

Joan Jett

Challenge

Different

" You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. "

" Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album. "

Joan Jett

Always

Death

" 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. "

" If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully. "

" Pop music is not a threatening style of music. "

" Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate. "

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

" I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll. "

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

" My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. "

" I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough? "

" I like the way black looks. 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. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable. "

" Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. "

Joan Jett

Parents

Young

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person. "

" I love school. I was a great student. "

" 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. "

" Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs. "

" I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. "