Juliana Hatfield

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.

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.

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.

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.

I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.

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

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.

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