Best 78 quotes of Juliana Hatfield on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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