Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
Juliana Hatfield
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.
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.
My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.
It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.
I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.
Just do what feels right.
A heart that hurts is a heart that works.
People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.
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've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.
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.
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.
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
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.
I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
I'm full of contradictions.
My knees are ticklish.
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.
I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
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.
The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.
People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.
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.
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
My soul is fine, thanks.
What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.
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.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.
I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.
My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.
I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
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.
I find myself a fascinating subject.
I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.
I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
I'm a neo-Luddite.
I'm not a very good advice-giver.
It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.
