Juliana Hatfield
Juliana Hatfield
Juliana Hatfieldis an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area. She was formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls and now performs as a solo artist, and as one half of Minor Alps, alongside Matthew Caws of Nada Surf. In December 2014, Paste Magazine named her cover of the "Needle in the Hay", a song by Elliott Smith, as No. 10 one of the "20 Best Cover Songs of 2014."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth27 July 1967
CityWiscosset, ME
CountryUnited States of America
I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.
I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
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'm able to see humor in a lot of things.
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.
You can feel that in the music, just the unease and the distrust of the things that satisfy people, and make people feel good.
What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?
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.
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.