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Life is sweet, life is also very short.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Life Is
Philosophy
Sweet
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Daughter
Mother
Raised
Television
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Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Booty
Shaking
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Poetry
Alive
Recitation
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Shaking
Going
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Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Wise
Eye
Philosophy
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Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Blind
Lost
Mind
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For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Friendship
Kindness
Admiration
Debt
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I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Following
Gay
Years
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Culture
Despair
Want
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TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Car
Our Society
Television
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Labor
Manual Labor
Manuals
Writing
Dig
Ditch
Manual
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Remember
Shows
Afford
Johnny
Rent
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Appreciated
Should Have
Wish
Worn
Youth
Clothing
Tighter
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I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
People
Trying
Who I Am
I Am People Trying
Exactly
Search
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I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Musician
Privilege
Sight
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Be True To Yourself
Profit
Worry
Be True
Companies
Um
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I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
People
Persuasion
Thinking
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The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Fascinating
Nerd
Phases
Research
Phase
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I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Individual
People
Thinking
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Dance
Humorous
Mass
Prison
Thinking
Environments
Prisons
Routines
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
I Can
Remove
Writing
Autobiographical
Slant
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Calling
Memories
Titles
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Publishing
Song
Use
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I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Crazy
Philosophy
Rivers
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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!
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Boyfriend
Girl
Crush
Shy
Years
Author
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Moments
Wonderful
Right Back
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Careers
Interesting
People
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Celebrity Status
Imagine
Musician
Pursue
Seeking
Thinking
Deliberately
Status
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Different
Order
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Drills
If I Could
Media
Mind
Overwhelming
Way
Almost
Useful
Head
Minds
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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 records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Records
Self
Way
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Achieve
Children
Mother
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Having Children
Tension
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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.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Childhood
Giving
Literature
Motherhood
People
Window
Different People
Experiences
Investigate
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Play
Thinking
Years
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I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Memories
Summer
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
America
Expression
Media
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Fun
Song
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Caring
Reality
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Travel
Eye
Sight
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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 In spite of the misery There's so much more, be grateful So, who will you believe Who will you listen to Who will it be 'Cause it's high time that you decide It's time to make up your own Your own state of mind Oh they told you life is long Be thankful when it's done Don't ask for more, be grateful But I tell you life is short Be thankful because Before you know it It will be over 'Cause life is sweet, life is also very short
Natalie Merchant / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Song
Sweet
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