Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, August 8th, 2008 in Female Musicians, Female Singers.
So Joan Jett was in a hurry. And her primary job is to be a rock and roller gal. We’ll give her (the reporter) that. But it looks like blogger Mary Colurso of AI.com got a lot of other information out of Joan during the brief 10 minute interview, which didn’t cover any of Joan’s veganism because it seemed “frivolous” based on the amount of time. Like the fact that she’s a workaholic:
“Well, I don’t like any time off,” Jett said. “I think people, when they get successful, take time to enjoy it. They take time off, go on vacation, go do other things. Not that it means artistic mold, but the audience moves so much faster these days. In the past, yeah, you could take time off and come back a year or six months later. But I’ve never taken any time off. Since I started with the Runaways, I’ve always been touring, always doing it. It keeps me feeling interested, feeling out there, feeling connected.”
It was actually during one of her nonstop road touring that the founding member of 70s girl rockers The Runaways, who later went on to be the front woman of The Blackhearts, made the decision to stop eating meat, according to an interview with GoVeg:
“I was on the road eight months a year, and meat was too heavy to eat late at night, so I ate other things. I slowly lost my taste for meat, and at the same time, I experienced a slowly dawning awareness that it is unnecessary to eat animals in order to live in this world.”
We’re letting Colurso get by this time. But if she gets another 10 minutes with the vegan woman who loves rock and roll, we hope the first question she pops is, “What did you eat for lunch today?”
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