Juliana Hatfield Quotes

Physically touring is tough on me, not that I am weakling. I lose weight. I can't always find the things I need to keep my strength up. It is very draining physically. It is taxing for my mind and body, but in a good way. It feels healthy in a way to purge things out of my system every night.

How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

I like people wanting to know about me.

I see a long lost home in his eyes. He sees a nice hotel in mine.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

The is a lot of anti-sexism coming from my point of view as a woman who deals with it every day. I think sexism is a form of discrimination. It is similar to other forms of discrimination. I think people should feel empowered to not take s**t from anyone.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.