Juliana Hatfield Quotes

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

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

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 able to see humor in a lot of things.

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

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 find myself a fascinating subject.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I like people wanting to know about me.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

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

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

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

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.

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

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

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.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

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