Paula Cole Quotes

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

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've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

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.

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

The monsters are in your own head

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.

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

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

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

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

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.

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 am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

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

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

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

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Welcome to the church of me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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