Juliana Hatfield Quotes

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Everything's been a struggle for me.

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.

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

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