Juliana Hatfield famous quotes

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Hurt #Heart

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Care #Boring #Accounting

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

#Baseball #Games #Fields

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

#Long #People #Veils

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

#Relation #Let Me #Mess

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

#Dream #Moving #Spotlight

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

#Years #Embarrassing #Should

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

#Independence #Individuality #Causes

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

#Kids #Rocks #Rock Music

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Believe #Voice #Quirky

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

#Song #Believe #Simple

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Expectations #Needs #Records

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Song #Writing #Thinking

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Believe #Jumping #Trying

I'm not a very good advice-giver.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Advice #Good Advice #Giver

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

#Reality #Kind #Mood

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

#People #Brain #Cold

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

#Care #I Still Care #Stills

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Long #Needs #Enough

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Baseball #Mean #Games

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

#People #Steps #Action

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

#Feel Good #Comforting #Needs

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Home #Writing #Thinking

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

#Voice #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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Struggle #Impact #People

Popular culture is filled with girls.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Girl #Culture #Filled

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

#Artist #Growth #Stories

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
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Flower #Sleep #Sunshine

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

#Motivation #Stuff #This Life

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Emotional #Kind

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#People #Complexity

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

#Writing #Touring #Enjoy

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Confused #Mess

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

#Stars #Believe #Actors

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

#Song #Knowing #Not Knowing

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

#Heart #Bird #Monk

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

#Bitter #Burned #Burned Out

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
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Morning #Heart #Failing

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Christian #People #Soul

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Desire #Incentives #Making Money

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Thinking #Have Faith #Things Happen

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Expression #Albums #Would Be

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Beautiful #Song #Albums

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Thinking #Knowing #Want

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

#World #This World #Contemplating

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

#Powerful #People #Singing

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Song #Writing #Titles

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Stupid #Writing #Editing

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Writing #Helping #Help Me

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Thinking #Ideas #People

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Feel Good #Important #Church

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Ideas #Entity #Persona

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

#Mirrors #Low Self Esteem #Needs

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Grateful #Shooting #Alive

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

#Sex #Nice #Home

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

#Hate #Roles #Attention

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

#Obsession #Curse #Compulsion

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Rocks #Guitar #Piano

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Guitar #Firsts

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

#World #Sweden #Feels

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Thinking #People #Trying

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Religious #People #Evil

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Moving #People #Inspire

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

#Running #Home #Watches

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Heart #Winning #Mass

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

#Fall #Boys #Rocks

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

#Song #Popular Song #Singers

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Littles #Suits #Terrible

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

#Kissing #Two #People

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

#Want #Visiting

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Song #Thinking #Fans

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

#Girl #People #Looks

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

#Giving Up #Having Hope #Persons

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

#Missing #Longing #Existential

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Fun #Office #Post Office

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

#Loner #Single Person #Persons

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Dying #Twenties

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

#Musician #Sound #Want

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

#Kids #And Love #Faith And Love

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

#Kids #Thinking #Able

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

#Dirty #Interviews #Sometimes

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

#Artist #Sick #Bored

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Dog #Beach #Islands

Everything's been a struggle for me.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Struggle

I find myself a fascinating subject.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Subjects

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

#Honest #Kind #Duty

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Past #Mind #Gone

I like people wanting to know about me.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#People

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

#Dad #My Dad

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

#Horse #Crazy #Player

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Able

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Song #New York #Memories

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.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Inspirational #Success #Smart