Natalie Merchant: “When I talk to friends who have creative lives and children, we commiserate about all the time we wasted in our youth” — salon.com

Topics: , , , , , , , , , , , Entertainment News “I don’t get to see as many films as I used to,” says Natalie Merchant. “You’ll find out if you ever have children.” It’s a curious admission, considering that the singer-songwriter has been a film buff since adolescence and has displayed in interviews a deep knowledge of the silent film era as well as contemporary art-house fare. Over the past 10 years, however, the demands of motherhood have curtailed her moviegoing significantly. These days she watches a lot of nature documentaries with her daughter as well as musicals that are “child-friendly but not mind-numbing.”

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