Quotes from Juliana Hatfield

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

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My knees are ticklish.

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

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

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

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

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

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

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

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

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

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.

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

People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.