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 Read Quote
I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl – long before I was a musician and a songwriter. Juliana Hatfield Read Quote
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. Juliana Hatfield Read Quote
If I have to work in McDonalds, fine – I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that? Juliana Hatfield Read Quote
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. Juliana Hatfield Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Juliana Hatfield Read Quote
People in L.A. don’t have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush. Juliana Hatfield Read Quote
