Paula Cole Quotes

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

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

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

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.

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

Welcome to the church of me.

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.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

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.

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

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

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

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.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

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.

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

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.

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

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.

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.

The monsters are in your own head

You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.

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.

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.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.