Top 90 Juliana Hatfield Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A heart that hurts is a heart that works.”

— Juliana Hatfield

2. “Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.”

— Juliana Hatfield

3. “I’ve always been a loner, and I’ve spent most of my life as a single person.”

— Juliana Hatfield

4. “If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?”

— Juliana Hatfield

5. “I’m a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.”

— Juliana Hatfield

6. “I make music and I can’t stop. It’s a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.”

— Juliana Hatfield

7. “To make big steps, you’ve got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

9. “The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.”

— Juliana Hatfield

10. “I’m not a very good advice-giver.”

— Juliana Hatfield

11. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

12. “Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe he’s a movie star.”

— Juliana Hatfield

13. “A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they’re leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.”

— Juliana Hatfield

14. “I’ve always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something’s missing.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

16. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

17. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

18. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

19. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

20. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

23. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

24. “I love ‘Crazy Horse,’ and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.”

— Juliana Hatfield

25. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

26. “The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

29. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

31. “Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.”

— Juliana Hatfield

32. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

34. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

36. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

37. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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38. “I’ve been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?”

— Juliana Hatfield

39. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

40. “People are complex. I’m just showing my complexity.”

— Juliana Hatfield

41. “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.”

— Juliana Hatfield

42. “My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

45. “A lot of my past is gone from my mind.”

— Juliana Hatfield

46. “I’m really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.”

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Juliana Hatfield

48. “I’ve finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.”

— Juliana Hatfield

49. “Everything’s been a struggle for me.”

— Juliana Hatfield

50. “Music is so hard. It’s a struggle to get people to care. It’s hard to make an impact in today’s world because people aren’t buying records anymore.”

— Juliana Hatfield