Quotes from 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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I like people wanting to know about me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

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

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!

Popular culture is filled with girls.