Natalie Merchant Quotes & Sayings

“Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I've raised my daughter with no television.”