Wealth & Money Quote by Juliana Hatfield

Hatfield’s dismissal of money lands less like a virtue signal and more like a self-portrait of an artist who’s tired of being told to want the “right” things. “Boring” is doing the heavy lifting here: she doesn’t argue that money is evil, or that commerce corrupts. She shrugs at it. That shrug is a quiet rebuke to the music industry’s default script, where success is measured in sales, chart positions, and the ability to turn a life into a scalable brand.

The line also sneaks in a practical confession: if accounting bores you, the modern economy will punish you for it. Hatfield isn’t pretending otherwise. “So I’m probably not going to ever make a lot of money” isn’t romantic martyrdom; it’s cause and effect, delivered with deadpan clarity. The subtext is control. By lowering the financial ceiling herself, she keeps the choice from being made for her by labels, managers, or the endless grind of monetizing every creative impulse.

Culturally, this sits in the long shadow of indie rock’s suspicion of “selling out,” but it’s sharper than that old moral panic. Hatfield frames the whole thing as temperament: she’d rather be absorbed in songs than spreadsheets. In an era when musicians are expected to be entrepreneurs first and artists second, the quote reads like a stubborn refusal to confuse visibility with value.