Natalie Merchant

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than…

— 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…

— Natalie Merchant

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Natalie Merchant

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

— 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

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I…

— Natalie Merchant

I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.

— Natalie Merchant

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

— Natalie Merchant

I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.

— Natalie Merchant

I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents.…

— Natalie Merchant

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

— Natalie Merchant

I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a…

— Natalie Merchant

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make…

— Natalie Merchant

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

— Natalie Merchant

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

— Natalie Merchant