As reported earlier on Tuesday, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts were among the artists who will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the institution’s 2015 induction ceremony, which will take place April 18 at Cleveland’s Public Hall.

Now, the band’s influential frontwoman has issued a statement expressing her feelings about the honor.

“I’m still collecting my thoughts, but the feeling is surreal,” says Jett.

“I’ve always focused on making music for the art of it, and its ability to reach others.  I am truly honored that my music has been recognized by the great rock and roll community that voted me in.”

The 2015 ceremony will be the second consecutive Rock Hall induction event at which Joan will appear.

This past April, she was one of several female artists who performed with the surviving members of Nirvana in celebration of that group’s induction at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Jett, of course, began her music career as a teenager in the 1970s when she helped found the all-female hard-rock group The Runaways.  That band broke up in 1979, and Joan released one solo album before forming the Blackhearts in 1981.

Their most recent album, Unvarnished was released in September of 2013.

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