Natalie Merchant Quotes
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
— Natalie Merchant
I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.
— Natalie Merchant
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
— Natalie Merchant
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
— Natalie Merchant
I've always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I've never lost sight of that.
— Natalie Merchant
Sometimes that's all you can do. Hope.
— Natasha Friend
Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.
— Elena Ferrante
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
— Hugh Prather
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.
— Natalie Merchant
Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
— Alvin E. Roth
I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
— Natalie Merchant
I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.
— Johnny Damon
Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?
— Natalie Merchant
Greatness can't be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.
— Jeff Sutherland
asked Paul to help him put it out on the
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Think honestly.Think humbly.
Think honorably.
Think happily. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
— Natalie Merchant
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
— Natalie Merchant
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
— Natalie Merchant
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
— Natalie Merchant
I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
— Natalie Merchant
It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
— Natalie Merchant
My experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.
— Marion Dane Bauer
I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
— Natalie Merchant
For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
— Natalie Merchant
More wine helps; it takes the edge off the despair.
— Garth Stein
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
— Natalie Merchant
I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.
— Natalie Merchant
Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
— Natalie Merchant
TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.
— Natalie Merchant
That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?
— Deborah King
The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
— Natalie Merchant
I've raised my daughter with no television.
— Natalie Merchant
Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?
— Natalie Merchant
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.
— Natalie Merchant
