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JOAN JETT talks about what she's learned and where she's headed.
from: More.com
by Holly George-Warren
Q. You initiated the idea of the independent artist by starting your own label to release your albums.
A. We had to create BLACKHEART RECORDS or we wouldn't have had anything out. Now we own the rights to our music, and I think people see the benefit in that. A lot of artists are trying to go that route.
Q. How do you write your songs?
A. In a couple of different ways. Once in a blue, blue moon, everything happens at once: You get the lyrics and the melody and you come out with a song almost completed. But that doesn't usually happen for me. I write a lot of riffs and melodies, and I'll get ideas for song titles, and I'll sort of put them together. I can't plan it; I can't say, "Okay, today at two o'clock I'm going to sit down and write for a couple of hours." I'm more impulsive.
Q. You've got some political songs on your latest album, SINNER: "Riddles," which uses Bush and Rumsfeld sound bites, and "Change the World." What motivated you to speak out on political issues?
A. I just had to comment. It would be great if people were more politically aware, but you can't force it. Until things directly impact their lives, they're not going to be involved. They'll say, "Wow, that's too bad, but..." I get it. I'm sure I do that in a lot of instances too. But I was wondering if anybody else was seeing what I was seeing, and I wanted to talk about how this specific administration uses language to confuse and blur what's really happening.
Q. When you were in your 20s, how did you envision yourself at the age you are now?
A. I lived every day for the moment, and I wasn't looking forward. Every day is new.
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