I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that. Natalie Merchant More Quotes by Natalie Merchant More Quotes From 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 wouldn't want people to know. Natalie Merchant careerspeopleinteresting When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore. Natalie Merchant albumsdifferentorder I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it. Natalie Merchant playyearsthinking I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals. Natalie Merchant individualpeoplethinking 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 publishingusesong I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions. Natalie Merchant persuasionpeoplethinking When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it. Natalie Merchant girlsongfun 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 I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in. Natalie Merchant mediamindway Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55. Natalie Merchant shakingbooty For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. Natalie Merchant debtkindnessfriendship Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Natalie Merchant blindmindlost There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President. Natalie Merchant mediaexpressionamerica For they told you life is hard Natalie Merchant songsweetbelieve I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. Natalie Merchant removei-canwriting I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing. Natalie Merchant caringbelievereality It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. Natalie Merchant showsremember 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 ablemomentswonderful I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that. Natalie Merchant musicianimaginethinking I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me. Natalie Merchant eyesighttravel
