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" 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. "
Daughter
Good
Bad
" Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. "
Introvert
Writer
Process
" But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans. "
Better
Fans
Hope
" 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. "
Too Much
Me
Looking Back
" 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. "
Up
Meant To Be
Australia
" Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair. "
Feminists
Hair
Psyched
" 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. "
Pain
Humble
Compassion
" I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. "
My Own
Awards
Death
" 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. "
Abyss
Darkness
Find
" 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. "
Life
Music
Way
" I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come. "
Future
Better
Believe
" I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city. "
Living
City
Myself
" I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. "
Memories
Childhood
Childhood Memories
" I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively. "
Always
Widely
Made
" I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success. "
Working
Accept
Adversity
" I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life. "
See
Living
Me
" I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. "
Think
You
Life
" 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. "
Day
Girl
Feel
" I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs. "
Music
Myself
Vision
" 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. "
Ocean
Me
Freedom
" Just watching my cats can make me happy. "
Watching
Me
Cats
" The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud. "
Flower
Bold
Sun
" The monsters are in your own head. "
Monsters
Head
Your
" 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. "
See
Walk
Abyss
" Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self. "
Self
Together
Thinking
" When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again. "
You
Want
Successful
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