Top 55 Juliana Hatfield Quotes

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

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.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

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

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.

I like people wanting to know about me.

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.

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

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

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.

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 never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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.

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.

I’m kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

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

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

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

My soul is fine, thanks.

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.

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

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

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

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

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, ’cause I don’t have to really say anything – I’m just singing.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl – long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

To make big steps, you’ve got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

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.

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

I’m not a very good advice-giver.

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

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

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

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!

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.