Natalie Merchant Quotes

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

 Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve raised my daughter with no television.