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

Juliana Hatfield

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Juliana Hatfield
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 27
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Singer-Songwriter
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Librarian
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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.
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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.
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I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.
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I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.
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Everything's been a struggle for me.
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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.
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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.
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I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
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I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
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A lot of my past is gone from my mind.
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It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.
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I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.
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I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.
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I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
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If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?
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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.
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My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
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I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
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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.
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I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.
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