Welcome to the church of me.

The monsters are in your own head

The monsters are in your own head.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but I think that niche is perhaps underserved, so I'm going to serve that.

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

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