Paula Cole Quotes

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

Life, Happy, Important

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.
Paula Cole

Life, Music, Question

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.
Paula Cole

Music, Anger, Pain

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.
Paula Cole

Health, Self, Thinking

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

Put, Memories, Childhood

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.
Paula Cole

Girl, Free, Born

Just watching my cats can make me happy.
Paula Cole

Pet, Happy, Cats

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.
Paula Cole

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

Process, Writer, Private

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

Music, Age, 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.
Paula Cole

Big, Fact, Looking

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.
Paula Cole

Men, While, Found

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
Paula Cole

Hair, Feminists, Psyched

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

Death, Sit, Artistic

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.
Paula Cole

Happiness, Find, Used

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

Hope, Future, Artists

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

Times, York, 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.
Paula Cole

Women, Men, Mind

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

Life, Living, Working

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.
Paula Cole

Challenge, Losing, Getting

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.
Paula Cole

Love, Family, Time

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.
Paula Cole

Music, Beautiful, Wanted

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.
Paula Cole

Music, Age, Freedom

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.
Paula Cole

Love, Same, Challenge

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

Living, Big, City

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Nationality: American

Born: April 5, 1968

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