Juliana Hatfield Quotes

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.

I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

You think you know who you are and then other people have these other ideas.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.