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

I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. — Tinker Hatfield

Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition. — Fredrick Hatfield

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

art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. - Capt. J. A. Hatfield — David Allen

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

I miss those times when I hadn't a clue. — Marina Leigh Hatfield

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security. — Mark 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

If people don't love or hate your work, you just haven't done all that much. — Tinker Hatfield

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

Because of his gift for language and his endless practice at arguing at Hatfield, my father was effective at holding his own, verbally, in this bear garden. He noticed that an offensive personal remark, however irrelevant, was often the best way of fighting back. After one boy with a long, foolish sharp-ended chin had baited him insistently for minutes on end, he came out with 'your remarks, unlike your chin are utterly pointless' - with a deflating result far better than he could possibly have hoped. — Hugh Cecil

I notice his socks are unmatched -- one black, the other a dark navy -- and suddenly I am provoked by his gall. Who is he to tell me I'm angry, I think to myself, when he can't even match his own socks? — Kathy Hatfield

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

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 have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though. — 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

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

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year. — Tinker 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 get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored. — Juliana Hatfield

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll. — Bobby 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 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 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

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

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

I wanted to drink the Kool-Aid he was serving, but by then my taste buds had matured and I preferred the vinegary truth. — Kathy Hatfield

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth. — Mark Hatfield

As to 'onto'. I know this is an ugly word, but I consider it to be necessary in certain contexts. If you say 'the cat jumped on the table' you may mean that the cat, already on the table, jumped up and down there. On the other hand, 'on to' (two words) means something different, as in 'we stopped at Barnet and then drove on to Hatfield'. In some contexts, therefore, one needs 'onto'. Fowler, if I remember rightly, doesn't altogether condemn it. — George Orwell

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war. — Mark 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

I like people wanting to know about me. — 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

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

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

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy ... it's hard to believe I was so crazy. — 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

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

With me and Bill ... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band. — Bobby 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

West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salvation had the Martins and the Sweets. — Avery Flynn

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me. — George Bernard Shaw

When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point. — Tinker 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 need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U. — 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

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

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican. — Mark Hatfield

It's okay, Daddy," Lexie says, smiling as she reaches over and pats the back of my hand. "Don't be sad. I still like playing with you, too. — J.M. Darhower

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

Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes! — Tinker Hatfield

He said I was a pretty little thing."
I kiss her again. "You are."
"He called me a broad."
Another kiss. "He did."
"He said I was your girlfriend."
I kiss her once more, this time deeper. "I heard. — J.M. Darhower

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life. — 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've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day. — Juliana Hatfield

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies. — Mark Hatfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do — Mark Hatfield

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

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up. — Tinker Hatfield

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people. — Mark Hatfield

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

My soul is fine, thanks. — Juliana Hatfield

I'm a neo-Luddite. — Juliana Hatfield

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

It was as if I had been dropped into the first chapter of a fairy tale - but we all know how fairy tales go. — Kathy 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

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

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

I'm definitely a cult artist. — Juliana Hatfield

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

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true. — Juliana Hatfield

A heart that hurts is a heart that works. - Juliana Hatfield — Rob Delaney

I'm full of contradictions. — Juliana Hatfield

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could ... over 15,000 kids chanting. — Bobby Hatfield

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

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