72 Quotes by Natalie Merchant

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

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.

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

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!

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.