"I don’t like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me." ― Paula Cole Topic(s): Death More From Paula Cole "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." "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." "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." More In Death "Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death."― Mike Myers "I’m more afraid of marriage than death."― Shakira "The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."― Bill Gates