Inside Mind Quotes by Natalie Merchant

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

I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I…

— Natalie Merchant

I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only…

— Natalie Merchant

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

— Natalie Merchant

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If…

— Natalie Merchant

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

— Natalie Merchant

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— 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

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

— 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

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

— Natalie Merchant

For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life is sweet…

— Natalie Merchant

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before…

— Natalie Merchant

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 raised my daughter with no television.

— Natalie Merchant