Juliana Hatfield
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Biography
Juliana Hatfield is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area. She was formerly a member of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and the Lemonheads.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I never really cared about achieving commercial success. As soon as I was signed to a record company, I felt like I made it because I was able to quit my day job. To me, success was just not having to have a boss and not having a day job. So I’ve been living my own version of success since the early ’90s when I first got signed and I haven’t had a job since then. I’m pretty happy about that. When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn’t suit my temperament at all. I’m a terrible public person. I’m happier where I am now."
"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."
"The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil."
"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."
"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."
"I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money."
"As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion."
"I'm able to see humor in a lot of things."
"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."
"Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia."
"I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence."
"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."