| • | "a pot-smoking, theater-loving high-school misfit", Details, Sep. '95 | |
| • | two scenes playing a "character", "Natalie Merchant - Ophelia" video, '98 |
| • | "[in an irritated tone] Oh, it smells like someone's been smoking in here!", Spin/Rolling Stone?, early 90's? |
| • | no - "'Ohhhh. You can't smoke,' she cries, stopping dead in the doorway. 'No, no, no. You can't smoke. I'll die.'", Spin, Sep. '89 | |
| • | no - "See, the band's [10,000 Maniacs] singer and lyricist Natalie Merchant is allergic to cigarette smoke, and [Paul] Fox was thinking of quitting anyway. 'We had made up a list of what we wanted in a producer,' Natalie explains. 'We wanted someone young, who was a musician but not a celebrity. We wanted someone who had given up drugs at least 10 years ago, and who didn't smoke.'", Music Express Magazine, Dec. '92 | |
| • | no - told audience during Lilith Fair '98 that because of the thin air, she needed folks to put out there cigs if they wanted a good show, netizen, '98 |
| • | holds in hand and in mouth in photo shoot for album "Ophelia", album, promo poster, '98 |