Joan Jett Quotes

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

One of the beautiful things about having kids is I had no idea how much it will make you look into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that kind of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.