Jett Quotes

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

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

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

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.

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.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

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.

The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

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.

A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

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

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.

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great

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

Women are still second-class citizens.

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

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.

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don't know now, try to figure it out.

Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

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

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.

I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

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

Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.

I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

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

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.

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

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

I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

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

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

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

Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.

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.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

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

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?