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

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