My parents told me when I was five years old I could be anything in life I wanted to be. And I believed them. I wanted to be an astronaut or an archaeologist. I wanted to be all these things before I landed on musician.
At 16, I had already decided that I wanted toWhich I knew, to a degree, was going to be difficult. But the absolute joy in trying to accomplish that – and actually accomplishing it [Jett formed The Runaways when she was 16, they released their debut single, , when she was 18] – really outweighed any sort of danger warning signs that should have been flashing in my brain. I thought that people would love 16-year-old girls playing rock’n’roll, that it would be an instant hit. I didn’t see how people could look down on that. And then I got a rude awakening to what certain aspects of America were really about.
