Juliana Hatfield Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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? — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My knees are ticklish. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Popular culture is filled with girls. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger. — Juliana Hatfield

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. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a neo-Luddite. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

Just do what feels right. — Juliana Hatfield

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. — Juliana Hatfield

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

My soul is fine, thanks. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

I'm definitely a cult artist. — Juliana Hatfield

I'm full of contradictions. — Juliana Hatfield

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

How can I shield myself from the things that I hear? — Juliana Hatfield

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

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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? — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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! — Juliana Hatfield

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

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