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I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they're doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.
I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It's rare that I even talk to anyone at a lot of them.
Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way.
You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.
It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.
If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.
I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.
As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.
If you're in a good relationship, you should be able to say to your girlfriend, 'That girl walking down the street is great.'
While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.
The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, 'I won. I won.'
A great guitar solo is really a song within a song. You can always go off and do your pageantry, but it has to be structured.
I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.
The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck.
For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.
You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like to have.
The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.
Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
I've written many love songs for Gerard. But it's never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.
Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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.
When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.
The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.
Ever since I left the Brit school I've been so protected. I had a woman to do my hair and makeup every day throughout my 20s.
Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.
Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.
If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!
I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.
Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.
Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.
If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.
Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.
Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.
Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?
I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.