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I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
I would be less naive.
My penchant for having just one too many.
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When I realised that I could be a musician. I was 16.
We were doing a tour in Japan and as our plane landed, it rose again, out of the blue. About 10 years later there was this programme about 10 of the nearest misses, and it was my flight. There was another plane on the runway and we nearly landed on top of it. I didn’t know until 10 years later.
When my new-born daughter Cleopatra died and I wasn’t there. I was doing a US tour and I remember sitting down in an airport and losing it.
I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.
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