Juliana Hatfield Quotes

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Everything's been a struggle for me.

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

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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