A biography for Juliana Hatfieldhasn’t been written yet.
“My soul is fine, thanks.”
“If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.”
“My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.”
“I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?”
“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.”
“People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.”
“I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.”
“All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.”
“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 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.”
“Popular culture is filled with girls.”
“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.”
“My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.”
“I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.”
“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.”
“I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.”
“The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.”
“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.”
“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 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.”