A biography for Juliana Hatfieldhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.”
“You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.”
“I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.”
“Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.”
“As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.”
“I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.”
“I'm full of contradictions.”
“A heart that hurts is a heart that works.”
“I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.”
“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.”
“From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.”
“People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.”
“My knees are ticklish.”
“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.”
“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 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 get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.”
“I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.”