Juliana Hatfield Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

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

I don't feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I'm not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it's really interesting. I wouldn't want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.

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

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

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.

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

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 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.

How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy ... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

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.

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.

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

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

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

I'm full of contradictions.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.

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.

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

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.

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

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

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

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.

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

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

I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.

My soul is fine, thanks.

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

Harmonies come really naturally to me. I don't have to labor too hard over them. I'll sing a lead vocal, and then I will immediately have all of these other ideas for vocal harmonies. I think that some of the most fun parts of recording, for me, are the vocal harmonies.

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.

Just do what feels right.

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

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

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me

I like people wanting to know about me.

I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!

Popular culture is filled with girls.

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

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

My knees are ticklish.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

If I have to work in McDonalds, fine - I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that?

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

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

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

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

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

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